Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
MILTON FRIEDMANSince the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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There’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
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With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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