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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.

Milton Friedman

The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Education Government Money Play Poor Role Waste
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
There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Goodness Harm Intention Liberty
There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Existence Government Ideal Rule
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
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Business Difference Freedom Yourself
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
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Freedom Greatness Mindset Ourselves Plant
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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Government Oneself Profit
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
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
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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Government Liberty Permenent
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
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Government Price

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