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If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Milton Friedman

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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Argument Opponents Right Understand View Yourself
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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Difference Freedom Independence Word
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
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Freedom Greatness Mindset Ourselves Plant
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Myself Possible Reason Support
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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Forget Freedom Limitation Live Man Misery Politics Time
I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
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Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle

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