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See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

Milton Friedman
War, Drug Cartels, Government
"Friedman & Szasz On Liberty and Drugs". Interview with Randy Paige on "America's Drug Forum", www.druglibrary.org. 1991.

As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by fighting a war that should never have been started and can be won, if at all, only by converting the United States into a police state.

Milton Friedman
War, Home, Fighting

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

Milton Friedman
Time, Military, War
Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the Mideast war.

Milton Friedman
War, Government, Oil
"There's no such thing as a free lunch".

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