There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
MILTON FRIEDMANOne role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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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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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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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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The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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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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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
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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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I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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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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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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