One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
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Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
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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.
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Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
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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.
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