Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
MILTON FRIEDMANI’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.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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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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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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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 achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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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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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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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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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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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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The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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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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