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People Quotes by Milton Friedman
- My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources…
- Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the…
- 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…
- If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.
- You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better life…
- What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is…
- If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The people who came…
- But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an…
- 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 strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade…
- 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…
- What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to…
- 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 evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like,…
- 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 real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are…
- You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two very different ways.…
- How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, and the rest?
- People who intend only to serve public interest are led by invisible hand to private interest which was no part of their intention.
- The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.
- What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business can. The only…
- So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the…
- Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
- Governments never learn. Only people learn.
- 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…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle