Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe 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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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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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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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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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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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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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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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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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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The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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