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

Milton Friedman

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Government Oneself Profit
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
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Equality Freedom Rule Society
The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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Difference Freedom Independence Word
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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
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
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
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
With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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Determination Difference Oppression Poor Respect Teaching
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
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
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
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
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
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

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