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System 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…
- The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was…
- 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…
- 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 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 Fed was largely responsible for converting what might have been a garden-variety recession, although perhaps a fairly severe one, into a major catastrophe. Instead…
- The great virtue of free enterprise is that it forces existing businesses to meet the test of the market continuously, to produce products that meet…
- 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…
- We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
- The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of…
- I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most…
- The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion…
- 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…
- What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do…
More System Quotes
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- As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence… — Kelly Ayotte
- I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope… — Charles Babbage
- That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it,… — Charles Babbage
- Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character… — Joe Baca
- Many children in the foster care system are often in the midst of a family challenge. — Michele Bachmann
- A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's called bankruptcy.… — Michele Bachmann
- One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have… — Ella Baker
- One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of… — Ray Stannard Baker
- I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. — Lucille Ball
- I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention on the… — Antonio Banderas
- The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where… — Henry Adams