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.
MILTON FRIEDMANIn 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.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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There’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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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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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
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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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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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The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
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