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

Milton Friedman

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Equality Freedom Rule Society
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
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
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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Dream Money Politics Technique Vote
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
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
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
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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
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 power to do good is also the power to do harm.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Choice Goodness Harm Power
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 unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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Employment Goodness Job People
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

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