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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Milton Friedman

Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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Exercise Freedom Liberty People Politics Power
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
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Myself Possible Reason Support
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
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
In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.
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Change Character Education Quality Unity
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
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
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
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
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent

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