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If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.

Milton Friedman

Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
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 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
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
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
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
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
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
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.
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Government Oneself Profit
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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Believe Government Live Way
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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Direction Government Improvement Philosophy
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.
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Government Harm Limitation

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