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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.

Milton Friedman

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Law Liberty Politics Society
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Greatness Judgement Mistake Oneself Politics Result
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
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 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
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
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
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Employment Government Limitation Money
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
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
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Equality Government Greatness Myself Privilege World
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
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
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
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value

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