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“The power to do good is also the power to do harm.”

Milton Friedman · Power

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Milton Friedman

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

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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Milton Friedman

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Government

Milton Friedman

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

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