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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

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
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
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
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
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
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
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
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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Government Oneself Profit
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
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
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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Greatness Judgement Mistake Oneself Politics Result

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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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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