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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

Milton Friedman

Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
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
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 power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
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
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
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Depression Employment Government Greatness Management
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
What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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Fundamental Principle Simplicity Understand Writing
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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Freedom Government Greatness Hate Religious
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
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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