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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

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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Exercise Freedom Liberty People Politics Power
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Destruction Hands Politics Power
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
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
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
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
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
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
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
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
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Myself Possible Reason Support
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
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent

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

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