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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Milton Friedman

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
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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Argument Opponents Right Understand View 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
The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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Freedom Government Greatness Hate Religious
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
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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Employment Goodness Job People
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money
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
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
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 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
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule

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