There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
MILTON FRIEDMANEvery person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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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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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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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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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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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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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
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