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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.

Milton Friedman

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Food Freedom
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective 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
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
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
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
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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
What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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Fundamental Principle Simplicity Understand Writing
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
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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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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