Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
MILTON FRIEDMANThere’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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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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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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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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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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A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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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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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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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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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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