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 FRIEDMANYou never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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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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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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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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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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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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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
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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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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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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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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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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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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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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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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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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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Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
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There’s no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn’t exist.
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Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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