A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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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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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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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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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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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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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What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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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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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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The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
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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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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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