In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.
MILTON FRIEDMANIf 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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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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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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Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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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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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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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.
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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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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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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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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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