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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

What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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Fundamental Principle Simplicity Understand Writing
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
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Law Liberty Politics Society
I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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Drugs Illegal Kill Myself People Right Support
A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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Country Freedom Himself Patriot
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Hell Right Sarcastic
There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Food Freedom
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
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Equality Government Greatness Myself Privilege World
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Business Government Law Politics
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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Employment Law Limitation Money Person Reality Skill
Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Freedom Person Price
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
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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Business Government Rule
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Choice Goodness Harm Power
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Absence Freedom Men Politics

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