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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

The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
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
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
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
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
I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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Drugs Illegal Kill Myself People Right Support
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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Devotion Energy Government Management Politics
The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Genrosity Government Money Power

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