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

Milton Friedman

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Care Freedom Yourself
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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Devotion Energy Government Management Politics
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Equality Freedom Rule Society
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
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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
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
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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Believe Government Live Way
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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Drugs Illegal Kill Myself People Right Support
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself

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