The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
MILTON FRIEDMANSociety doesn’t have values. People have values.
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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 cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.
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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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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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There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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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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Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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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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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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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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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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