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Take Quotes by Milton Friedman
- Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can…
- 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…
- 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 government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
- Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
- Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
- The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place…
- I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated…
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