Best quotes by Milton Friedman on Government

Checkout quotes by Milton Friedman on Government

• ‟ Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

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• ‟ If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

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• ‟ The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

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• ‟ When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.

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• ‟ I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash - a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B without A knowing B or B knowing A.

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• ‟ The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

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• ‟ The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

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• ‟ Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

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• ‟ The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

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• ‟ Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.

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• ‟ Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

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• ‟ The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

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• ‟ The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

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• ‟ Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

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