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More Quotes by Milton Friedman
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
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.
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
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.
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?
