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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.

Milton Friedman

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
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
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
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.
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Change Character Education Quality Unity
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 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
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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Dream Money Politics Technique Vote

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