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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Milton Friedman

Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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Forget Freedom Limitation Live Man Misery Politics Time
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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Government People Philosophy Problem Protection
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
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
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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People Poor Start Wind Yourself
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
The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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Avoid Power Problem Rule World
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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Business Freedom Important Place Profit
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 no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
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
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
The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Genrosity Government Money Power

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