"See, if you look at the drug war……" — Milton Friedman
"See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true."
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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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More Cartel Quotes
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Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the…
— Howard Lyman
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The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel
— Ed Markey
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At the highest levels of the medical cartel, vaccines are a top priority because they cause a weakening of the…
— Jon Rappoport
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Thus far, both political parties have been remarkably clever and effective in concealing this new reality. In fact, the two…
— Charles Ferguson
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The number one reason why marijuana is illegal is because the Pharma Cartel does not want you to grow your…
— Joe Rogan
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There are two ways to lose you sanity in Juarez. One is to believe the violence results from a cartel…
— Charles Bowden
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The goal of the FED, as with all central banks, is three-fold: (1) to protect the largest commercial banks from…
— Gary North
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Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented…
— G. Edward Griffin
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By...WWII, I.G. Farben had become...part of the most gigantic and powerful cartel of all history...interlocking agreements...over 2,000 of them...In the…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the…
— Edward Dahlberg
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There is no free market for oil. It's controlled by a cartel, OPEC.
— Frederick W. Smith
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In the U.S. I think there are really two reasons we should pursue energy policy. One is climate change, and…
— Brad Carson
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