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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Milton Friedman

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Choice Destruction Liberty Necessary
The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Genrosity Government Money Power
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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Exercise Freedom Liberty People Politics Power
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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Government Money Save
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm 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
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
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
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
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Employment Government Limitation Money
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Greatness Judgement Mistake Oneself Politics Result
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
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
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility

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