Governments never learn. Only people learn.
MILTON FRIEDMANGovernment is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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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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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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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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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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The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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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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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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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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