The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.

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You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

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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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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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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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Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

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If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

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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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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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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

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