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Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

~Milton Friedman

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The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

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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 only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

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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.

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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

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The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: July 31st, 1912

Died: November 16th, 2006

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