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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.

Milton Friedman

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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
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
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Destruction Hands Politics Power
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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Funny Government Politics Rule Yourself
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
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
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
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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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