Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
MILTON FRIEDMANHell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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The government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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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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What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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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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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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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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The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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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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If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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