The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
MILTON FRIEDMANCorruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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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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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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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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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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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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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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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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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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