“The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.”
— Milton Friedman
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“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.”
— Milton Friedman
Author: Milton Friedman
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“Inflation is taxation without legislation.”
— Milton Friedman
Author: Milton Friedman
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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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“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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“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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“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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“Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.”
— Milton Friedman
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“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”
— Milton Friedman
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“History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.”
— Milton Friedman
Author: Milton Friedman
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