Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
MILTON FRIEDMANEvery person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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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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If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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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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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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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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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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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.
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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 economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
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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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