"There's a smokestack on the back of every……" — Milton Friedman
"There's a smokestack on the back of every government program."
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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 Every Government Quotes
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to…
— Thomas Carlyle
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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is for the good of nations, and not for the emolument or aggrandizement of particular individuals, that government ought…
— Thomas Paine
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It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself. The enemy of America is…
— George W. Bush
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The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
— Thomas Jefferson
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And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
— James Madison
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In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.
— Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
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The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try…
— Bertrand Russell
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