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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

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Drug Government Protection See True War
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
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
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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Business Enemy Freedom Man Rival
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
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
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
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
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.
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Doubt Greatness Himself Mindset Myself Principle Reality
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
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
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
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 problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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Avoid Power Problem Rule World
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself

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