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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.

Milton Friedman

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
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
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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Government Money Save
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
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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Devotion Energy Government Management Politics
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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Avoid Power Problem Rule World
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Equality Government Greatness Myself Privilege World
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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Choice Destruction Liberty Necessary
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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Government People Philosophy Problem Protection
I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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Drugs Illegal Kill Myself People Right Support
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
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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People Poor Start Wind Yourself

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