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

Milton Friedman

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Greatness Judgement Mistake Oneself Politics Result
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
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
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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Government People Philosophy Problem Protection
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
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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Employment Law Limitation Money Person Reality Skill
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Myself Possible Reason Support
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
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
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 combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Destruction Hands Politics Power

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