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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

Milton Friedman

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
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
I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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Drugs Illegal Kill Myself People Right Support
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
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
The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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Force Liberty People Rule Society
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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Forget Freedom Limitation Live Man Misery Politics Time
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Civilization Government Greatness Science
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
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
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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Business Freedom Important Place Profit
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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People Poor Start Wind Yourself
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
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

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