Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
MILTON FRIEDMANNobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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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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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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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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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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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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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 person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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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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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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