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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.

Milton Friedman

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Business Government Law Politics
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
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
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.
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Freedom Government Greatness Hate Religious
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
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
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
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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Business Enemy Freedom Man Rival
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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Funny Government Politics Rule Yourself
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

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