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The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.

Milton Friedman

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
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
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
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
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
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
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
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.
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Government Oneself Profit
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
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
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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Forget Freedom Limitation Live Man Misery Politics Time
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
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Destruction Hands Politics Power
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
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
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem

The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.

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The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.

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