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Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

Milton Friedman

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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Employment Goodness Job People
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Greatness Judgement Mistake Oneself Politics Result
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
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
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
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
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
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
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
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

Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

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Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

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