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The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.

Milton Friedman

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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Fundamental Principle Simplicity Understand Writing
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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Country Freedom Himself Patriot
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
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
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
There’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
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Doubt Greatness Himself Mindset Myself Principle Reality
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
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
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
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 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
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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