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" We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. "
Milton Friedman
Taxes
Work
Increasingly
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" The power to do good is also the power to do harm. "
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" When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player. "
Milton Friedman
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Help
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" Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. "
Milton Friedman
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Belief
Free
" Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. "
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Only
Good
Politics
" 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. "
Milton Friedman
Right
Want
People
" The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. "
Milton Friedman
Government
Never
Science
" Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. "
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Friend
I Am
Freedom
" Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? "
Milton Friedman
Self-Interest
Economic
Political
" Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. "
Milton Friedman
Good
Good Intentions
Power
" 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. "
Milton Friedman
Economy
Great
Government
" Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. "
Milton Friedman
Program
Nothing
Government
" The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. "
Milton Friedman
Test
Comparison
Only
" Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. "
Milton Friedman
Like
Politics
Scorned
" If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. "
Milton Friedman
Government
Politics
Sand
" The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. "
Milton Friedman
Way
Together
People
" 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 Friedman
Assume
Economic
Pie
" Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. "
Milton Friedman
Belief
Group
Freedom
" I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A. "
Milton Friedman
You
Government
Internet
" Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. "
Milton Friedman
Work
Political
Government
" Inflation is taxation without legislation. "
Milton Friedman
Taxation
Inflation
Finance
" Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. "
Milton Friedman
Want
Government
More
" The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. "
Milton Friedman
Bad
Problem
Government
" I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. "
Milton Friedman
Finance
Circumstances
I Am
" And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout? "
Milton Friedman
Think
People
Me
" Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive. "
Milton Friedman
Columbus
New
Seek
" There's no such thing as a free lunch. "
Milton Friedman
Free
Free Lunch
Lunch
" The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. "
Milton Friedman
Capitalism
Greed
Organization
" Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. "
Milton Friedman
Nation
Government
Military
" Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. "
Milton Friedman
Form
Inflation
Taxation
" The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. "
Milton Friedman
Important
Think
Government