One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe 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.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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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 great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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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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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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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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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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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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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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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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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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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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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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