Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
MILTON FRIEDMANMost of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
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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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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
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A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
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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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I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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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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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
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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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You know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
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The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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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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