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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.

Milton Friedman

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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Hurt Law People Reality Support Tragedy
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Law Rule Talk Understand 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
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
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
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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Force Liberty People Rule Society
The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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Freedom Government Greatness Hate Religious

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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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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