Milton Friedman Quotes
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Milton Friedman: “Don’t look at what the proponents of one system or another say are their intentions. Look at what the actual results are.” “Socialism, which means government ownership and operation of means of production, has appealed to high-minded, fine people, people of idealistic views, because of the supposed objectives of socialism.” “But you have to ask the question: does the system, no matter what its proponents say, produce those results? Once you look at the results, it’s crystal clear that they do not. Social injustice is clearly greatest where you have central control.”
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Milton Friedman: “I am not a conservative. I’ve never been a conservative. Hayek was not a conservative.” “We are liberals in the true meaning of that term: concerned with freedom. We are not liberals in the current distorted sense—those liberal with other people’s money.”
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Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money: 1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither) The last one is how government spending works 🚨
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Milton Friedman responds to a heckler asking if he’s ever been poor: “Of course, more so than most people in this room. How many of you have worked a 12-hour day and gotten paid 78 cents?” “But that’s irrelevant—is there one of you who is going to say you don’t want a doctor to treat you for cancer unless he himself has had cancer?”
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Milton Friedman: “When the law prohibits things that most people regard as moral and proper, they’re going to break the law.” “And when people start breaking one set of laws, there’s a strong tendency for the lack of respect for the law to extend to all, even those which everyone regards as moral and proper—laws against violence, theft, vandalism.”
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Milton Friedman on 4 ways to spend money: 1) Your money on yourself (you’re careful about both cost and quality) 2) Your money on others (you care about cost, less about quality) 3) Someone else’s money on yourself (you care about quality, not cost) 4) Someone else’s money on others (you care about neither) The last one is how government spending works.
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Milton Friedman: “Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.” “If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or borrowing.”
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Milton Friedman: “We want a society of variety and diversity. We want a society in which people can celebrate their ethnic backgrounds. But that’s a very different thing from a society which somehow takes ethnic characteristics as a criterion for preference or lack of preference, or a society which moves away from the doctrine of color-blindness to the doctrine of so-called ‘affirmative action.’”
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Milton Friedman: “Wherever the free market has been permitted to operate, the ordinary man has been able to attain levels of living never dreamed of before.” “Nowhere are the rich richer and the poor poorer than in those societies that do not permit the free market to operate.”
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Milton Friedman: “We are not governed by the people—that’s a myth that carries over from Abraham Lincoln’s day. We don’t have government of the people, by the people, for the people.” “We have government of the people, by the bureaucrats, for the bureaucrats.”
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