The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
MILTON FRIEDMANHell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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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 combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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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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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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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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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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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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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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With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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