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

Milton Friedman

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
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
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
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
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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Hurt Law People Reality Support Tragedy
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
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
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics 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
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
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
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
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
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
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
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
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
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
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
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
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
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
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

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