Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more u… — Quoted

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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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Milton Friedman

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

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Milton Friedman

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.

Government

Milton Friedman

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

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Milton Friedman

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