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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

Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Change Politics Reality
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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Business Freedom Important Place Profit
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
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
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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People Society Value
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Argument Belief Freedom Liberty
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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Drug Government Protection See True War
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Noble Politics Profit True
Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Government Learning People Philosophy Rule
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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Exercise Freedom Liberty People Politics Power
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
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
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
Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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Care Himself Independent Money

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