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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.

Milton Friedman

There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Existence Government Ideal Rule
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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Determination Difference Oppression Poor Respect Teaching
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
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
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
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
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
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
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.
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Change Character Education Quality Unity
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Civilization Government Greatness Science
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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Drug Government Protection See True War
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
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

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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