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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert,

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years thered be a shortage of sand. – Milton Friedman

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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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Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. – Milton Friedman

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Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios. – Bill Owens

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It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. – Hubert H. Humphrey

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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. – Abraham Lincoln

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In the inner city, theres a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. Ive gotta love me more than anybody else loves me. – Mary J. Blige

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