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

Milton Friedman

Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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Believe Government Live Way
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
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
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 cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.
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Employment Pay People Yourself
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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Devotion Energy Government Management Politics
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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Direction Government Improvement Philosophy
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
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
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
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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