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Milton Friedman Quotes

"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.""Inflation is taxation without legislation.""One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.""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 great advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science or literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government""Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself""The power to do good is also the power to do harm""Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program""Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it""I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible"