I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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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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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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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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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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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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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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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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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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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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