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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.

Milton Friedman

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
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
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
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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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Difference Freedom Independence Word
The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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Business Enemy Freedom Man Rival
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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Government Oneself Profit
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 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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Freedom Government Greatness Hate Religious
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
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
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Destruction Hands Politics Power
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
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

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