"If you put the federal government in charge……" — Milton Friedman
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
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195 Quotes by Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman has 195 quotes on this site.
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When a private enterprise fails, it is closed down; when a government enterprise fails, it is expanded. Isn't that exactly…
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Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of…
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My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving…
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Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself…
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or…
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force…
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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society…
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people,…
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use…
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Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they…
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The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of…
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A society based on the freedom to choose is better than a society based on the principles of socialism, communism…
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On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me…
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Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which…
— Michele Bachmann
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A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us.…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua…
— Warren G. Bennis
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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge…
— Jeff Bezos
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One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with…
— Lewis Black
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Our manifesto, whatever it will be called, will come from the people who are really in charge of this country,…
— John Boehner
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I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a…
— Elayne Boosler
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I'm not in charge of judgments in Iran. The judicial system in Iran is an independent body of its own,…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be…
— Eli Broad
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Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.
— Les Brown
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