The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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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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The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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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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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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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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