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

Milton Friedman

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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Fundamental Principle Simplicity Understand Writing
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
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
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
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 put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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Funny Government Politics Rule Yourself
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
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
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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

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