Quote by Milton Friedman
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that gr

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. – Milton Friedman

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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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Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesnt run on greed? You think Russia doesnt run on greed? You think China doesnt run on greed? What is greed? – Milton Friedman

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Society
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Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. – Milton Friedman

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Knowledge
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Freedom
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The Ego is partly free. partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Freedom

I think to be – for me to be an American is – you know, its one of the greatest things in the world for – you know, for me just because Ive been able to grow up with everything. The freedom. You know, in my eyes this is the greatest country in the world. – Michael Phelps

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Freedom

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible. – James Anthony Froude

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Freedom

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. – Louis D. Brandeis

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Freedom

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Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss-up. – Charles Sanders Peirce

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What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country. – Bill Maher

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