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Men Quotes by Milton Friedman
- The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is…
- 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…
- There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals…
- 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 Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is a testament to…
- The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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