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

Milton Friedman

Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Greatness Judgement Mistake Oneself Politics Result
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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Argument Opponents Right Understand View Yourself
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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Business Freedom Important Place Profit
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
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 essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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Force Liberty People Rule Society
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
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
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
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent

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

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