One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe 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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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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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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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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If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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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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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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