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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

Milton Friedman

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
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
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
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
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
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
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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Employment Law Limitation Money Person Reality Skill
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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Argument Opponents Right Understand View Yourself

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