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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

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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Fundamental Principle Simplicity Understand Writing
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
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
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Government Harm Limitation
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
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
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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People Poor Start Wind Yourself
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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Believe Government Live Way
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
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 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

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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