There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
MILTON FRIEDMANSociety doesn’t have values. People have values.
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The essential notion of a capitalist society … is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
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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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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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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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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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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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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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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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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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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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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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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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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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