The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
MILTON FRIEDMANOne role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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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 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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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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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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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.
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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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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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