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Man Quotes by Milton Friedman
- When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends…
- 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…
- Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands...…
- 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…
- Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
- 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…
- One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
- Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but all…
- Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle