The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
MILTON FRIEDMANThere’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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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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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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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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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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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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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 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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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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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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