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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

Governments never learn. Only people learn.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Government Learning People Philosophy 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
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
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
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
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
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Greatness Judgement Mistake Oneself Politics Result
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
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
There’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
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Doubt Greatness Himself Mindset Myself Principle Reality
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself

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

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