Quote by Milton Friedman
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployme

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. – Milton Friedman

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If even a small fraction of the money we now spend on trying to enforce drug prohibition were devoted to treatment and drug rehabilitation, in an atmosphere of compassion not punishment, the reduction in drug usage and in the harm done to users could be dramatic. – Milton Friedman

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Drugs
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What kind of society isnt structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system. – Milton Friedman

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Capitalism
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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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Government
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Every dollar I cant commit to my company thats paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I dont want done. – Curt Schilling

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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. – Thomas Jefferson

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Government

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. – Thomas Jefferson

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Government

Bureaus are extrusions from the body politic — they are pus. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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Government

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