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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 government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Genrosity Government Money Power
With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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Determination Difference Oppression Poor Respect Teaching
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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Believe Government Live Way
In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.
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Change Character Education Quality Unity
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
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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Civilization Government Greatness Science
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
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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Business Enemy Freedom Man Rival
There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
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Government Harm Limitation
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
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
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Deep Eyes Perspective Yourself
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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Government Money Save

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