Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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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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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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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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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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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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Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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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 government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
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The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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