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

Milton Friedman

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
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
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
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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Business Enemy Freedom Man Rival
The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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Choice Destruction Liberty Necessary
The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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Force Liberty People Rule Society
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
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 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
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
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

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