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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.

Milton Friedman

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
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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
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
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
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
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
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
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
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
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

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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