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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

Milton Friedman

The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Government Harm Limitation
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
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
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Government Oneself Profit
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law 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
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
The 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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Civilization Government Greatness Science
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Business Difference Freedom Yourself
With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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Determination Difference Oppression Poor Respect Teaching
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
What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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Fundamental Principle Simplicity Understand Writing
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.

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