If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
MILTON FRIEDMANI would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
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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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There’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.
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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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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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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
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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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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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The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
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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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Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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