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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.

Milton Friedman

You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Business Difference 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
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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Business Freedom Important Place Profit
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.
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Change Character Education Quality Unity
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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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Exercise Freedom Liberty People Politics Power
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
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
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
There’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
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Doubt Greatness Himself Mindset Myself Principle Reality
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

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