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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

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
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
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
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
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
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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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Difference Freedom Independence Word
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
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
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste

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