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A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.

Milton Friedman

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Care Freedom Yourself
There’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
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Doubt Greatness Himself Mindset Myself Principle Reality
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
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Greatness Judgement Mistake Oneself Politics Result
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
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
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
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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Government Money Save
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 achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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
The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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Employment Goodness Job People

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