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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.

Milton Friedman

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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle
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
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 excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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Choice Destruction Liberty Necessary
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
There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Existence Government Ideal Rule
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
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
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
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
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
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics

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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