Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
MILTON FRIEDMANWith 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.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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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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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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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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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 such thing as a free lunch.
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The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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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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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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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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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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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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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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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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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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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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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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