"The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people."
-Milton Friedman
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"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.“
-Milton Friedman
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"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
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"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."
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"Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?"
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"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."
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"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
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"Bloomberg's $50 million is not going to revolutionize the electric power industry. But his willingness to fight is already inspiring others to see Big Coal differently."
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"A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power."
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"The coal industry is an even larger part of the Australian economy than it is of the American, and it has an enormous amount of political power."
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"We say no to lots of things that would please us. I would like to punch people every now and then, but I don't. I would like to have something for free rather than pay for it. I would like to skip to the front of the line... I don't mean to brush aside the taste of meat, which is a powerful attraction. But its power is not without limit."
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