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Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#armed #army #camp #casual #citizens

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#employment #entertainment #exist #ideas #knowledge

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

— Milton Friedman

#nobler #political #really #self-interest #somehow

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed? ↗

— Milton Friedman

#first #first of all #greed #know #me

The power to do good is also the power to do harm. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#good #harm #power

Red Carpet has a nice package abstraction layer that allows us to support RPMs and DEBs transparently. ↗

— Nat Friedman

#allows #carpet #layer #nice #package

Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#chain #china #coastal #come #computer

There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#calling #committee #couple #course #developed

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#consumes #course #energy #generate #golf

We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#clean #country #develop #invention #more