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Good Quotes by Milton Friedman
- Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.
- You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing.…
- What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is…
- Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's…
- That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the people who come…
- There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
- The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper role…
- There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it…
- I do not believe there is a natural resource economics. I believe there is good economics and bad economics.
- Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
- Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
- The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
- 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.…
- Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom,…
- 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…
- A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.…
- One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions, rather than their results. We all know a famous road that…
More Good Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle