I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
MILTON FRIEDMANThere’s no such thing as a free lunch.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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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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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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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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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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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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A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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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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The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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