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 FRIEDMANThe growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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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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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
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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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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
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The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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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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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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