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Milton Friedman

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Milton Friedman
Age: 94 †
Born: 1912
Born: July 31
Died: 2006
Died: November 16
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The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used.
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If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is still at a very low level.
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See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.
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I can spend somebody else's money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else's money on somebody else, I'm not concerned about how much it is, and I'm not concerned about what I get. And that's government.
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Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us.
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The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is a testament to how much harm can be done by mistakes on the part of a few men when they wield vast power over the monetary system of the country.
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The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
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Richard Nixon was a very intelligent and able man. And he had the right ideas. But he did not have the adherence to principles that [Ronald] Reagan had. He did some very good things. We owe to Richard Nixon the volunteer army - he got rid of the draft. And that was a major increase in freedom.
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If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.
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Anybody who was easily converted was not worth converting.
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I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
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Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
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I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.
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The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.
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What central banks can control is a base and one way they can control the base is via manipulating a particular interest rate, such as a Federal Funds rate, the overnight rate at which banks lend to one another. But they use that control to control what happens to the quantity of money. There is no disagreement.
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In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.
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