Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe power to do good is also the power to do harm.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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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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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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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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The word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
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We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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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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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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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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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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There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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