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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

One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Drug Market Oneself Role
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
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
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Equality Freedom Rule Society
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
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
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Myself Possible Reason Support
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
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
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
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
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
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

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