Quote by Milton Friedman
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That th

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. – Milton Friedman

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. – Milton Friedman

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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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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals. – Golda Meir

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We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didnt. – Tim Scott

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I mean, just because youre a musician doesnt mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come. – Jerry Garcia

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This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave. – Dee Dee Myers

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When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what? – Sydney J. Harris

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There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. Thats not the call of patriotism. – John Bolton

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You can’t file a conversation. – P.C. Woodhull, c.1940s

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Excess of grief for the dead is madness for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not. – Xenophon

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