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Voluntary Quotes by Milton Friedman
- Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.
- The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
- Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique…
- Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense…
- 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…
- 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 think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.
More Voluntary Quotes
- It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite… — Hannah Arendt
- Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. — Jane Austen
- We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling… — H. P. Blavatsky
- Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be… — Harry Browne
- Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities. — Harry Browne
- Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history.… — George H. W. Bush
- Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the largest voluntary… — George W. Bush
- For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the… — John Hughlings Jackson
- A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of those who… — John Climacus
- We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first… — Ronald Reagan
- Voluntary simplicity means going fewer places in one day rather than more, seeing less so I can see more, doing less so… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Common education standards are essential for producing the educated work force America needs to remain globally competitive. This voluntary state lead effort… — Craig R. Barrett