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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

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
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
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
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
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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Government People Philosophy Problem Protection
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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Argument Opponents Right Understand View Yourself
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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Hurt Law People Reality Support Tragedy
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Law Rule Talk Understand 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
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Myself Possible Reason Support

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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