Governments never learn. Only people learn.
MILTON FRIEDMANIn 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.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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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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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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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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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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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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Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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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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The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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