The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
MILTON FRIEDMANMost economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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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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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.
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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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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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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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