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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

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Equality Government Greatness Myself Privilege World
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
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

Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle
If 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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Funny Government Politics Rule Yourself
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
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
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
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 government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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Country Freedom Himself Patriot
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
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality

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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