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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.

Milton Friedman

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
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Depression Employment Government Greatness Management
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
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
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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Funny Government Politics Rule Yourself
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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Exercise Freedom Liberty People Politics Power
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
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 solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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Fundamental Principle Simplicity Understand Writing
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
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Freedom Greatness Mindset Ourselves Plant
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
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

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