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Long Quotes by Milton Friedman
- Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can…
- 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…
- The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly…
- Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term…
- I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to tell people what…
- The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty…
- So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.
- So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it is literally impossible…
- There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as…
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