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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.

Milton Friedman

Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
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
There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Existence Government Ideal Rule
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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Fundamental Principle Simplicity Understand Writing
A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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Country Freedom Himself Patriot
The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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Avoid Power Problem Rule World
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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Argument Opponents Right Understand View Yourself
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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Dream Money Politics Technique Vote
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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Choice Destruction Liberty Necessary
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
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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Employment Pay People Yourself
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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

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