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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

Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Company Money Profit Responsibility
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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Care Freedom Yourself
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
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
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
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
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
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
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
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 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
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

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