Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
MILTON FRIEDMANPolitical freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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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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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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The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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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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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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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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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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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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