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

Milton Friedman

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
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Depression Employment Government Greatness Management
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Equality Government Greatness Myself Privilege World
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.
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Freedom Greatness Mindset Ourselves Plant
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Genrosity Government Money Power
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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Business Enemy Freedom Man Rival
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
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
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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Force Liberty People Rule Society
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
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
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
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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Country Freedom Himself Patriot
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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Drug Government Protection See True War
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

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