Governments never learn. Only people learn.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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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 real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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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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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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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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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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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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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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