I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
MILTON FRIEDMANAnything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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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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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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There’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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I am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
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See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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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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With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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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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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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