Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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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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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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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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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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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 excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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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.
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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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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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