"Viewed as a means to the end of……" — Milton Friedman
"Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political power and in this way enables the one to offset the other"
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195 Quotes by Milton Friedman
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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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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values…
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from…
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By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his…
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As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience…
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Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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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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Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but…
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