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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.

Milton Friedman

The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Genrosity Government Money Power
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
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
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
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
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Civilization Government Greatness Science
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Depression Employment Government Greatness Management
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
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 combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Destruction Hands Politics Power
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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Employment Law Limitation Money Person Reality Skill
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
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

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