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.
MILTON FRIEDMANNothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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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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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
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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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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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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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Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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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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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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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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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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A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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