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Power Quotes by Milton Friedman
- 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…
- The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
- Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power.…
- Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.
- 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…
- Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in…
- 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 problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power.
- The free market is not only a more efficient decision maker than even the wisest central planning body, but even more important, the free market…
- The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
- ...Only physicians are likely to be regarded as competent to judge the qualifications of potential physicians, so licensing boards in the various states...are typically composed..of…
- The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power…
- Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
- The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
- 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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- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo