You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
MILTON FRIEDMANWhen you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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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 power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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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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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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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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The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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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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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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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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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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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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Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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