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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

Milton Friedman

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
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
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 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
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
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Government Harm Limitation
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
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

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

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