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Milton Friedman

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
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
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
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
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
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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Funny Government Politics Rule 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
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
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
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
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
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Employment Government Limitation Money
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 know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World 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
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic

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