If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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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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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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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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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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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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I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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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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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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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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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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