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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

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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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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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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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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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With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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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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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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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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