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

Milton Friedman

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
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
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
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
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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Direction Government Improvement Philosophy
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
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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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
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
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

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