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You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

Milton Friedman

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
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Freedom Greatness Mindset Ourselves Plant
The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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Difference Freedom Independence Word
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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Business Design Game Oneself Responsibility Rule
The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Law Rule Talk Understand 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
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
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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