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

Milton Friedman

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Choice Goodness Harm Power
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
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
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Government Oneself Profit
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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Government People Philosophy Problem Protection
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Business Difference Freedom Yourself
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Choice Destruction Liberty Necessary
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Freedom Greatness Mindset Ourselves Plant
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
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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Employment Pay People Yourself
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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Freedom Person Price
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty

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