You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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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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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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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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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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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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Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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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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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 Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
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