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

Milton Friedman

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men 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
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
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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Government Oneself Profit
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
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
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Genrosity Government Money Power
I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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Drugs Illegal Kill Myself People Right Support
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

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