Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
MILTON FRIEDMANOnly a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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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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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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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 combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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