Quote by Milton Friedman
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Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. – Milton Friedman

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So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. – Milton Friedman

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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. – Milton Friedman

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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. – Milton Friedman

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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. – Alan Greenspan

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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. – Willa Cather

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With one man, there was a freedom and liberation. That was with Michael Hutchence, my partner in life. – Kylie Minogue

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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people. – Ibrahim Babangida

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We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look. – Aldous Huxley

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Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. – Lin Yutang

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The sky is not the limit — the ground is. – Allen Roulston

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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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