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 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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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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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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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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The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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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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