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

Milton Friedman

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
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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Hurt Law People Reality Support Tragedy
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.
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Employment Pay People Yourself
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
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
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
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
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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Government People Philosophy Problem Protection
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
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 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
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent

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

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