Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
MILTON FRIEDMANThere’s no such thing as a free lunch.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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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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Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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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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Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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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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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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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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