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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.

Milton Friedman

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Business Difference Freedom Yourself
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
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
There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Existence Government Ideal Rule
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 growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste
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
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Equality Freedom Rule Society
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
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Equality Government Greatness Myself Privilege World
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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Determination Difference Oppression Poor Respect Teaching
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 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

Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle

I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.

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