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Milton Friedman Quotes: What kind of society isn't structured on greed? 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.
         

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? 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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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.



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



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You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.



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The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.



I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

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 great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.



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Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.



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You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.



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