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More Quotes by Milton Friedman
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you.
