The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
MILTON FRIEDMANI 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.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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There’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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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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The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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