Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
MILTON FRIEDMANConcentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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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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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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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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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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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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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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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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