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Libertarianism Quotes by Milton Friedman
- The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
- Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
- Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
- 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…
- Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
- 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…
- The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion…
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- Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee. — F. Lee Bailey
- Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. — Honore de Balzac
- Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit… — John Adams
- Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. — Frederic Bastiat
- Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler
- Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it… — Allan Bloom
- A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. — Spiro T. Agnew
- Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — James Bovard
- Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the… — Harry Browne
- Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. — Edmund Burke
- I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean… — Courtney Love