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With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

Milton Friedman

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
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
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.
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Employment Pay People Yourself
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
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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Difference Freedom Independence Word
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
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
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
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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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Funny Government Politics Rule Yourself
The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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Employment Goodness Job People

With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

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