The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.

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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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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

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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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Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.

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A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

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

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Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.

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Society doesn't have values. People have values.

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