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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

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Education World Yourself
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
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
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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Devotion Energy Government Management Politics
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
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
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
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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Government People Philosophy Problem Protection
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
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
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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Direction Government Improvement Philosophy
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself

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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