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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.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?
