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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

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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Exercise Freedom Liberty People Politics Power
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
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.
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Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle
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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Equality Freedom Rule Society
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
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
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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Drug Government Protection See True War
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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Employment Law Limitation Money Person Reality Skill

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

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