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The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.

Milton Friedman

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Freedom Greatness Mindset Ourselves Plant
If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
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
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
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
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
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
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
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
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 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
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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Exercise Freedom Liberty People Politics Power
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom

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