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• ‟ There's no such thing as a free lunch.

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• ‟ So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

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• ‟ When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.

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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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• ‟ Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

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• ‟ Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

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• ‟ History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

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• ‟ Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

  - Milton Friedman
  

• ‟ Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

  - Milton Friedman
  

• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

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• ‟ The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

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• ‟ The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

  - Milton Friedman