"To the free man, the country is the……" — Milton Friedman
"To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served."
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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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The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are all blindly adopted, the…
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Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who…
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People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or…
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The superior man is intelligently, not blindly, faithful.
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To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity…
— James Bovard
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I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the…
— John B. S. Haldane
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One may well find oneself beginning to doubt whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery…
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For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who…
— Walter Mason Camp
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Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now.…
— John Templeton
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To start blindly with a statement is a sign of arrogance and narrow-mindedness, and will lead to conflict. To start…
— Scott Watson
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Don't always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.
— Georg Cantor
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