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.
MILTON FRIEDMANIn 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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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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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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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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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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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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The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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