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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Milton Friedman

There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Existence Government Ideal Rule
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
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 essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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Force Liberty People Rule Society
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Myself Possible Reason Support
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.
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Direction Government Improvement Philosophy
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Equality Freedom Rule Society
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.
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Change Character Education Quality Unity
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
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

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