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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

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Law Rule Talk Understand Yourself
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Government Liberty Permenent
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Bad Government Liberty Problem
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Business Government 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
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Creation Harm Intention Liberty Power
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 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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Freedom Government Liberty Myself Principle
The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Achievement Civilization Government Greatness
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.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Government Oneself Profit
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
MILTON FRIEDMAN

Argument Opponents Right Understand View 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 Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Depression Employment Government Greatness Management
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule

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