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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

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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Avoid Power Problem Rule World
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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Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
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Employment Government Limitation Money
The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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Difference Freedom Independence Word
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
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
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
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
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
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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Forget Freedom Limitation Live Man Misery Politics Time

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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