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

Milton Friedman

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.
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Employment Pay People Yourself
The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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Avoid Power Problem Rule World
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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Direction Government Improvement Philosophy
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
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
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
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
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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Devotion Energy Government Management Politics
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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Forget Freedom Limitation Live Man Misery Politics Time
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
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
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

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