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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.

Milton Friedman

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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Dream Money Politics Technique Vote
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
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
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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People Poor Start Wind Yourself
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 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
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 nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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Hurt Law People Reality Support Tragedy
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
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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Government Money Save
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
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
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself

Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.

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