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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take. ↗

— Anna Friel

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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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. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? ↗

— Milton Friedman

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We need to become energy independent or at least aspire to that. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

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The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. ↗

— Milton Friedman

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