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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.

Milton Friedman

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
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
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.
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Employment Pay People Yourself
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
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
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
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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Hurt Law People Reality Support Tragedy
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
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
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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Devotion Energy Government Management Politics
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom

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