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

Milton Friedman

A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Country Freedom Himself Patriot
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
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
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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Direction Government Improvement Philosophy
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
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
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 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
In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.
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Change Character Education Quality Unity
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Government Price
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
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
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle

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

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