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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

Milton Friedman

Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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Believe Government Live Way
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
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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Country Freedom Himself Patriot
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
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World 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
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
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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Drugs Illegal Kill Myself People Right Support
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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Business Enemy Freedom Man Rival
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

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