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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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"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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"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
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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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"I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
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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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"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."
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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."
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"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition."
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