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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Milton Friedman

Most 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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Government Oneself Profit
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Greatness Judgement Mistake Oneself Politics Result
A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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Country Freedom Himself Patriot
There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Government Harm Limitation
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Destruction Hands Politics Power
There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Existence Government Ideal Rule
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Freedom Person Price
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Education World Yourself
With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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Determination Difference Oppression Poor Respect Teaching
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Care Freedom Yourself
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
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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Change Character Education Quality Unity
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
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
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic

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