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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.

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
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
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
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
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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Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
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
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
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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Employment Goodness Job People
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Equality Freedom Rule Society
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 is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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Business Design Game Oneself Responsibility Rule
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics

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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