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If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.

Milton Friedman

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
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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
There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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Business Design Game Oneself Responsibility Rule
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
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
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
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
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
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
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
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value

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