Quote by Milton Friedman
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. - Milto

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. – 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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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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Freedom
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years thered be a shortage of sand. – Milton Friedman

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Government
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A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable. – Simon Mainwaring

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Government

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may. – Daniel Webster

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Government

I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up. – Jim DeMint

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Government

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. – Richard Lamm

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Government

Random Quotes

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. – Marvin Minksy

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Television

Ive given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. – Oscar Levant

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Selfishness

We are too quick to imitate depraved examples. – Juvenal

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Example

What a country calls its vital… interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war. Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. – Simone Weil, Ecrits historiques et politiques, 1960

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War