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

Milton Friedman

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
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
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
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
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
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 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
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
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
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
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
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself

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