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Milton Friedman

"Governments never learn. Only people learn."

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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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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."
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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."
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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."
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"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless."
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"The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people."
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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."
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"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."
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"The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience."
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"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."
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"I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal."
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