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Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

Milton Friedman

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
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
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
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
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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Freedom Government Greatness Hate Religious
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.
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Government Harm Limitation
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
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
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
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
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
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

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