You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
—Milton Friedman
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In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, “Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.”
—Milton Friedman
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The elementary fact is that ‘business’ does not and cannot pay taxes. Only people can pay taxes. Corporate officials may sign the check, but the money that they forward to Internal Revenue comes from the corporation’s employees, customers, or stockholders.
—Milton Friedman
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I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it’s only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.
—Milton Friedman
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One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
—Milton Friedman
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If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven’t cut taxes enough.
—Milton Friedman
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Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
—Milton Friedman
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I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it’s only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.
—Milton Friedman
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I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it’s only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.
—Milton Friedman
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The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.
—Milton Friedman
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If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
—Milton Friedman
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I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it’s only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.
—Milton Friedman
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I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or if they try, they will shortly be out of office.
—Milton Friedman