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Milton Friedman1912–2006

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.

Milton Friedman on economics

America’s Drug Forum interview (1991)

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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.
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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.
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Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
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