We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Milton Friedman
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  1. A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

  2. I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they’re responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of.

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  5. For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If all we want are jobs, we can create any number--for...

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