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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Milton Friedman

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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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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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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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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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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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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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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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