Milton Friedman's Quote - Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much mo

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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much mo

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

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Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. – Milton Friedman

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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. – Thomas Paine

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, “Maxims: Education,” 1905

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The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments. – Donald Rumsfeld

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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. – Robert M. Hutchins, Great Books, 1954

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There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. – Thomas Fuller

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Darkness cannot put out the Light. It can only make God brighter. – Author Unknown

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Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved – Mason Cooley

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Gray hairs are deaths blossoms. – English Proverb

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