Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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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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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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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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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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Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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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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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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There’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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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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