There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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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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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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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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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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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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