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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman

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
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
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Depression Employment Government Greatness Management
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 simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom 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
There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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Business Design Game Oneself Responsibility Rule
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 favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Myself Possible Reason Support
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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