The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
MILTON FRIEDMANCorruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
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Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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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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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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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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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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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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I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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