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Thinking Quotes by Milton Friedman
- You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing.…
- 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…
- Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants to…
- I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.
- 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 think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If there's something wrong,…
- 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?
- And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon…
- Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed?…
- The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government…
- Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group…
- I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense…
- Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I…
- I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.
- There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils.…
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