You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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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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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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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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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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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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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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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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