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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.

Milton Friedman

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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Business Freedom Important Place Profit
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
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
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
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
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
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Myself Possible Reason Support
The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Genrosity Government Money Power
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Equality Government Greatness Myself Privilege World
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
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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Choice Destruction Liberty Necessary

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