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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the prob

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. – Milton Friedman

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If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic. – Milton Friedman

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Drugs
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Milton Friedman
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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. – Milton Friedman

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Freedom
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Milton Friedman
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Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed. – Paul Tsongas

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All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. – William Henry Harrison

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When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads. – Ron Paul

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Government

The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. – James Madison

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