Quote by Milton Friedman
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for poli

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. – Milton Friedman

Other quotes by Milton Friedman

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. – Milton Friedman

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Government
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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. – Milton Friedman

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A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. – Neil Gaiman

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Ive never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. Its probably because they have forgotten their own. – Margaret Atwood

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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. – Wole Soyinka

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Freedom

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

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When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that. – Michael Moriarty

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When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that Im artistic and cool and Im doing the exact same thing I did in high school. – Freddie Prinze, Jr.

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An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community – as SNCC does – must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan. – Stokely Carmichael

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It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people. – Anthony Kiedis

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