The 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.
MILTON FRIEDMANIf you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
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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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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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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.
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The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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Every person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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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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The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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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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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
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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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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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