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

Milton Friedman

There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Existence Government Ideal Rule
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
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Employment Government Limitation Money
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
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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Country Freedom Himself Patriot
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Civilization Government Greatness Science
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
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
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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Determination Difference Oppression Poor Respect Teaching
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
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
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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Drug Government Protection See True War
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule

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