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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.

Milton Friedman

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Destruction Hands Politics Power
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
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Government Harm Limitation
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
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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Civilization Government Greatness Science
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
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
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
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
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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Government Oneself Profit
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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Drug Government Protection See True War

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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