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A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.

Milton Friedman

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
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
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Civilization Government Greatness Science
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
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Greatness Judgement Mistake Oneself Politics Result
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Existence Government Ideal Rule
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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Choice Destruction Liberty Necessary
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 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

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