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

Milton Friedman

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Devotion Energy Government Management Politics
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
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
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
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
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Civilization Government Greatness Science
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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Forget Freedom Limitation Live Man Misery Politics Time
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
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
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
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
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 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
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
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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Funny Government Politics Rule Yourself

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