Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe 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.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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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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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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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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The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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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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Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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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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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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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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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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If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.
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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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