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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.

Milton Friedman

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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Direction Government Improvement Philosophy
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
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
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
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
There’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Doubt Greatness Himself Mindset Myself Principle Reality
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 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
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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