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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

Milton Friedman

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 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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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste
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 combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Destruction Hands Politics Power
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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Employment Goodness Job People
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
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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Difference Freedom Independence Word
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
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
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
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
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
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
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics

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