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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.

Milton Friedman

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
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
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
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
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
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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Government Money Save
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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
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 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
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

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