Quote by Milton Friedman
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. – 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 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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architecture
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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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President Obamas call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity. – Rick Perry

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I dont consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying. – George Michael

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I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. – Martin Sheen

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The public is upset. If they havent lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they havent lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When somethings wrong, its governments job to fix it, it must be government thats responsible for causing it. – Michael Bloomberg

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Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced. – William Glasser

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet. – James Openheim

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A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. – William Graham Sumner

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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. Forbidden is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. Its there to nourish your body. – Valerie Bertinelli

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