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Individual Quotes by Milton Friedman
- Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique…
- To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a…
- Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else.
- 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…
- The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather…
- To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. ... He recognizes no national…
- The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities…
- By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the…
- Individual price and wage changes will not be prevented. In the main, price changes will simply be concealed by taking the form of changes in…
- The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory…
- 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…
- I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense…
- 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…
- I start ... from a belief in individual freedom and that derives fundamentally from a belief in the limitations of our knowledge, from a belief…
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- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough
- Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they… — Margaret Atwood
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual. — Irving Babbitt
- I always worked very hard against the unconstitutional individual mandate in health care. I didn't praise it. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what… — Michele Bachmann
- The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion -… — Michele Bachmann
- An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou