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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.

Milton Friedman

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
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
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
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom 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
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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Avoid Power Problem Rule World
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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Choice Destruction Liberty Necessary
There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Existence Government Ideal Rule

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