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Up Quotes by Milton Friedman
- 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…
- A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom.…
- 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…
- 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…
- The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a…
- For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of…
- A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
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