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"One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship."
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"A man has generally the good or ill qualities, which he attributes to mankind."
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"Speak slowly, Michael. He is an honourable man."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year."
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"I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got into the dumpling."
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"The zeal, bravery, and good behavior of the officers and men on the night of June 30, and during July 1, was commendable in the extreme."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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Explore more quotes by Milton Friedman

"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."
Gain

"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
Architecture

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
Trust

"Inflation is taxation without legislation."
Economy

"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless."
Government

"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."
Government

"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government."
Government

"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."
Government

"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."
Friendship

"Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes."
Knowledge
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