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

Milton Friedman

Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
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
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent 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
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
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
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
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
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
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Equality Government Greatness Myself Privilege World
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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Business Design Game Oneself Responsibility Rule
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

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