The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
MILTON FRIEDMANThere’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.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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 most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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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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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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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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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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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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Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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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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With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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