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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

There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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Dream Money Politics Technique Vote
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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Employment Law Limitation Money Person Reality Skill
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
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
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Equality Freedom Rule Society
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
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 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
There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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Business Design Game Oneself Responsibility Rule
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
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
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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Argument Opponents Right Understand View Yourself
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value

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