"One of the great mistakes is to judge……" — Milton Friedman
"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."
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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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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of…
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April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
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Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in…
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I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get…
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In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The…
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"I call them april babies cause they fools"
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The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. (2nd April 1945)
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With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American…
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Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of…
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