When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
MILTON FRIEDMANHell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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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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Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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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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Governments never learn. Only people learn.
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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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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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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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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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