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Milton Friedman

Prisudzované výroky

Tento preklad čaká na revíziu. Je preklad správne?

„Spoločnosť, ktorá uprednostňuje rovnosť pred slobodou, nezíska ani jedno, ani druhé. Spoločnosť, ktorá uprednostňuje slobodu pred rovnosťou, bude mať dostatok oboch týchto vecí.“

Milton Friedman

„História nám len naznačuje, že kapitalizmus je potrebnou podmienkou politickej slobody. Je zrejmé, že nie je podmienkou postačujúcou. Fašistické Taliansko a fašistické Španielsko, Nemecko v rôznych obdobiach počas posledných sedemdesiatich rokov, Japonsko pred prvou svetovou vojnou a v medzivojnovom období, cárske Rusko v desaťročiach pred prvou svetovou vojnou – to všetko sú spoločnosti, ktoré rozhodne nemožno označiť ako politicky slobodné. No predsa, v každej z nich bolo súkromné podnikanie dominantnou formou ekonomického usporiadanie. Je preto zjavne možné, aby existoval ekonomický systém, ktorý je vo svojich základoch kapitalistický, a politický systém, ktorý nie je slobodný. Dokonca aj v týchto spoločnostiach mali občania omnoho viac slobody než občania moderných totalitných štátoch ako je Rusko alebo nacistické Nemecko, kde je ekonomický totalitarizmus spojený s politickým totalitarizmom. Ešte aj v cárskom Rusku mali niektorí občania za určitých okolností možnosť zmeniť zamestnanie bez potreby súhlasu politickej autority, pretože kapitalizmus a existencia súkromného vlastníctva do istej miery kontrolovali centralizovanú moc štátu.“

Milton Friedman kniha Capitalism and Freedom

History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. Fascist Italy and Fascist Spain, Germany at various times in the last seventy years, Japan before World Wars I and II, tzarist Russia in the decades before World War I -- are all societies that cannot conceivably be described as politically free. Yet, in each, private enterprise was the dominant form of economic organization. It is therefore clearly possible to have economic arrangements that are fundamentally capitalist and political arrangements that are not free. Even in those societies, the citizenry had a good deal more freedom than citizens of a modern totalitarian state like Russia or Nazi Germany, in which economic totalitarianism is combined with political totalitarianism. Even in Russia under the Tzars, it was possible for some citizens, under some circumstances, to change their jobs without getting permission from political authority because capitalism and the existence of private property provided some check to the centralized power of the state. (en)
Potvrdené výroky, Kapitalizmus a sloboda (1962)
Zdroj: FRIEDMAN, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. 3rd Edition, Chicago; Londýn : University of Chicago Press, 2002. 208 p. ISBN 0-226-26421-1. p. 10.

„Vojna je priateľom štátu. V čase vojny si vláda osobuje moc a robí veci, ktoré by zvyčajne nerobila.“

Milton Friedman

War is a friend of the state. In time of war, government will take powers and do things that it would not ordinarily do. (en)
Friedman vysvetlil prečo je militaristická zahraničná politika Bushovej administratívy hrozbou pre jeho snahy zoštíhľovania štátnej správy.
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: LOCHHEAD, Carolyn. Friedman's 'heresy' hits mainstream / Private Social Security accounts were his idea. http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Friedman-s-heresy-hits-mainstream-Private-2665465.php#page-2 In San Francisco Chronicle. ISSN 1932-8672, 2005-06-05 [cit. 2014-01-09].

„Som agnostik. „Neverím v“ Boha, ale nie som ateista, pretože verím, že tvrdenie „Boh existuje“ nie je možné ani potvrdiť, ani vyvrátiť. Nemyslím si, že Boh nejako súvisí s ekonomikou, ale hodnoty áno.“

Milton Friedman

I am an agnostic. I do not "believe in" God, but I am not an atheist, because I believe the statement, "There is a god" does not admit of being either confirmed or rejected. I do not believe God has anything to do with economics. But values do. (en)
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: LOFTON, John. An Exchange: My Correspondence With Milton Friedman About God, Economics, Evolution And “Values”. http://archive.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=736 American View. 2006 [cit. 2014-01-12].

„Obed zadarmo neexistuje.“

Milton Friedman

Prisudzované výroky

Milton Friedman Citáty o ľuďoch

„Jednou z najväčších chýb je posudzovať politiku a programy podľa ich zámerov a nie na základe výsledkov. Všetci vieme, ktorá slávna cesta je vydláždená dobrými úmyslami. Ľudia, ktorí hlásajú ich mäkkým srdcom – sympatizujem s nimi – obdivujem ich mäkké srdcia, ale nanešťastie to zvyčajne postihuje aj ich myseľ, pretože skutočnosťou ostáva, že programy označené ako určené pre chudobných, núdznych, takmer vždy pôsobia opačne než dobré mienené úmysly ich navrhovateľov.“

Milton Friedman

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. We all know a famous road that is paved with good intentions. The people who go around talking about their soft heart — I share their — I admire them for the softness of their heart, but unfortunately, it very often extends to their head as well, because the fact is that the programs that are labeled as being for the poor, for the needy, almost always have effects exactly the opposite of those which their well-intentioned sponsors intend them to have. (en)
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: The Open Mind : Living Within Our Means. http://www.thirteen.org/openmind/public-affairs/living-within-our-means/494/ [epizóda televíznej talkshow]. Moderátor Richard D. Heffner. Spojené štáty, 1975. WPIX, 1975-12-07 10:30 EST.

„Dovoľte mi, aby som opäť prizvukoval, že 'neschvaľujem ani neospravedlňujem režimy Čile, Brazílie, Juhoslávie alebo Ruska'. Nemal som nič spoločné s ich vládou. Vrúcne si prajem, aby boli nahradené slobodnou demokratickou spoločnosťou. 'Nepovažujem návštevu žiadneho z nich za súhlas s nimi.' Nepovažujem učenie sa z ich skúseností za nemorálne. Nepovažujem poskytnutie rád ohľadne ekonomickej politiky za nemorálne, keď sú podľa mňa také podmienky, že ekonomický vzostup by prispel ako k blahobytu obyčajných ľudí, tak aj k šanci na posun smerom k politicky slobodnej spoločnosti.“

Milton Friedman

„V našej vysoko technizovanej ekonomike potrebujeme dobre vzdelaných zamestnancov. Ale ešte dôležitejšie je, že druh školského systému mení sociálnu štruktúru spoločnosti. V Spojených štátoch smerujeme k systému dvoch spoločenských vrstiev – jednej, ktorá niečo vlastní a druhej, ktorá nemá nič. Bohatí a chudobní. Ľudia s majetkom a vzdelaním dosahujú relatívne vysoký príjem. Tí, ktorí nemajú nič, sú z veľkej časti aj tými, ktorí nemajú dokončené vzdelanie. A náš súčasný školský systém vedie k tomu, že sa tento rozdiel stále viac zväčšuje a že rastie rozdiel medzi príjmami tých, ktorí sú hore a ktorí sú dole. To je vzhľadom k duchu a blahu spoločnosti nezdravý vývoj.“

Milton Friedman

Potvrdené výroky

„Hlavný zdroj námietok proti slobodnej ekonomike ozaj spočíva práve v tom, že túto úlohu plní tak dobre. Poskytuje ľuďom to, čo chcú a nie to, o čom si nejaká zvláštna skupina myslí, že by mali chcieť. Za mnohými argumentmi proti slobodnému trhu sa skrýva nedostatok viery v samotnú slobodu.“

Milton Friedman kniha Capitalism and Freedom

Indeed, the major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it does this task so well. It gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. (en)
Potvrdené výroky, Kapitalizmus a sloboda (1962)
Zdroj: FRIEDMAN, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. 3rd Edition, Chicago; Londýn : University of Chicago Press, 2002. 208 p. ISBN 0-226-26421-1. p. 15.

Milton Friedman citáty a výroky

Tento preklad čaká na revíziu. Je preklad správne?

„Jednou z najväčších chýb je posudzovať politikov a ich program podľa ich zámerov, a nie podľa ich výsledkov.“

Milton Friedman

O chybách

„S úctou k platom učiteľov, hlavný problém nespočíva v tom, že by v priemere boli príliš nízke – v priemere môžu byť tiež príliš vysoké – ale v ich prílišnej uniformite a strnulosti. Zlí učitelia sú značne preplácaní a dobrí učitelia sú značne nedoplácaní. Platové tabuľky majú sklon byť uniformné a určované podstatne viac vekom, získanými titulmi a certifikátmi než zásluhami.“

Milton Friedman kniha Capitalism and Freedom

With respect to teachers' salaries, the major problem is not that they are too low on the average — they may well be too high on the average — but that they are too uniform and rigid. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority, degress received, and teaching certificates acquired than by merit. (en)
Potvrdené výroky, Kapitalizmus a sloboda (1962)
Zdroj: FRIEDMAN, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. 3rd Edition, Chicago; Londýn : University of Chicago Press, 2002. 208 p. ISBN 0-226-26421-1. p. 95.

O veku , vek , O učiteľoch , O problémoch

„'Som za znižovanie daní, za akýchkoľvek okolností a pre akúkoľvek výhovorku, pre akýkoľvek dôvod, kedykoľvek je to možné.' Dôvodom je moje presvedčenie, že veľkým problémom nie sú dane, ale výdavky. Otázkou je: „Ako znížite štátne výdavky?“ Štátne výdavky teraz dosahujú 40 percent národného dôchodku, nerátajúc priame výdavky prostredníctvom regulácií a pod. Pokiaľ zahrniete aj tie, vyjde vám približne polovica. Reálne riziko, ktorému čelíme je že sa toto číslo bude postupne zvyšovať. Jediným efektívnym spôsobom, ako ho udržať dole je obmedziť objem štátnych príjmov. To možno učiniť znížením daní.“

Milton Friedman

otázka , O problémoch

„Kedykoľvek vláda niečo dotuje, tak to môže robiť dvomi spôsobmi: môže subvencovať výrobcov alebo spotrebiteľov. Môže napríklad zaplatiť poľnohospodárom, aby vyrábali potraviny, alebo môže vydávať potravinové známky pre jednotlivých spotrebiteľov, ktorí potom môžu kupovať potraviny lacnejšie. Keď vláda dotuje výrobcov, tak neexistuje hospodárska súťaž, producenti nemajú skutočný dôvod s peniazmi zmysluplne zachádzať. Pokiaľ dotuje spotrebiteľov, potom títo majú záujem svoje peniaze správne využiť.“

Milton Friedman

Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: MŰHLFENZLOVÁ, Isabell. Milton Friedman: Čím víc je svobody, tím lepší je život. http://hn.ihned.cz/3-18602890-Friedman-500000_d-79 In Hospodářské noviny. ISSN 1213-7693. 2006-06-05 [cit. 2014-01-09]. (Český preklad pôvodného interview pre nemecké noviny Handelsblatt)

O peniazoch

„Od začiatku som bol proti tomu, aby sme išli do Iraku. Myslím, že to bola chyba, z rovnakého dôvodu, že neverím, že Spojené štáty americké by sa mali podieľať na agresii.“

Milton Friedman

As it happens, I was opposed to going into Iraq from the beginning. I think it was a mistake, for the simple reason that I do not believe the United States of America ought to be involved in aggression. (en)
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: VARADARAJAN, Tunku. Rose and Milton Friedman : The Romance of Economics. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB115352827130914276 In The Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660, 2006-12-22 [cit. 2014-01-09].

O chybách

„…najchudobnejšie rodiny majú veľký záujem na tom, aby ich deti získali vzdelanie, ktoré im umožní lepší život v iných sociálnych podmienkach.“

Milton Friedman

Potvrdené výroky

O deťoch , O rodine , O vzdelanie , O živote

„Nič nie je také trvácne ako dočasný vládny program.“

Milton Friedman

Prisudzované výroky

„Nemáme zúfalú potrebu rásť. My máme zúfalú túžbu rásť.“

Milton Friedman

„Dovoľte mi, aby som opäť prizvukoval, že neschvaľujem ani neospravedlňujem režimy Čile, Brazílie, Juhoslávie alebo Ruska.“

Milton Friedman

Nemal som nič spoločné s ich vládou. Vrúcne si prajem, aby boli nahradené slobodnou demokratickou spoločnosťou. Nepovažujem návštevu žiadneho z nich za súhlas s nimi. Nepovažujem učenie sa z ich skúseností za nemorálne. Nepovažujem poskytnutie rád ohľadne ekonomickej politiky za nemorálne, keď sú podľa mňa také podmienky, že ekonomický vzostup by prispel ako k blahobytu obyčajných ľudí, tak aj k šanci na posun smerom k politicky slobodnej spoločnosti.
Let me stress again. I do not approve or condone the regimes in Chile, Brazil, Yugoslavia or Russia. I had nothing to do with their establishment. I would fervently wish their replacement by free democratic societis. I don not regard visiting any of them as an endorsement. I don not regard learning from their experience as immoral. I don not regard giving advice on economic policy as immoral if the conditions seem to me to be such that economic improvement would contribute both to the well-being of the ordinary people and to the chance of movement toward a politically free society. (en)
Potvrdené výroky, Two Lucky People (1998)
Zdroj: FRIEDMAN, Milton – FRIEDMAN, Rose. Two Lucky People : Memoirs. University of Chicago Press, 1998. 660 p. ISBN 0-226-26414-9. p. 596. (odpoveď na list Augusta Pinocheta, 21. apríl 1975)

„Som za znižovanie daní, za akýchkoľvek okolností a pre akúkoľvek výhovorku, pre akýkoľvek dôvod, kedykoľvek je to možné. Dôvodom je moje presvedčenie, že veľkým problémom nie sú dane, ale výdavky. Otázkou je: „Ako znížite štátne výdavky?““

Milton Friedman

Štátne výdavky teraz dosahujú 40 percent národného dôchodku, nerátajúc priame výdavky prostredníctvom regulácií a pod. Pokiaľ zahrniete aj tie, vyjde vám približne polovica. Reálne riziko, ktorému čelíme je že sa toto číslo bude postupne zvyšovať. Jediným efektívnym spôsobom, ako ho udržať dole je obmedziť objem štátnych príjmov. To možno učiniť znížením daní.
I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. The reason I am is because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending. The question is, “How do you hold down government spending?” Government spending now amounts to close to 40% of national income not counting indirect spending through regulation and the like. If you include that, you get up to roughly half. The real danger we face is that number will creep up and up and up. The only effective way I think to hold it down, is to hold down the amount of income the government has. The way to do that is to cut taxes. (en)
Potvrdené výroky
Zdroj: HAWKINS, John. An Interview With Milton Friedman. http://www.rightwingnews.com/interviews/an-interview-with-milton-friedman-2/. 2003-09-16 [cit. 2014-01-09].

otázka , O problémoch

Milton Friedman: Citáty v angličtine

“The average income of blacks here is far higher than the average income of all the people in the Soviet Union. The official government definition of the poverty line in the U. S. is higher than the average income in the Soviet Union; it’s higher than the income received by 90 percent of the people on the world’s surface. Now, that doesn’t mean blacks aren’t subject to injustice; of course they are.”

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“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn’t really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it and doesn’t just talk about it, he wants to have the right amount of pollution. We can’t really afford to eliminate it—not without abandoning all the benefits of technology that we not only enjoy but on which we depend. So the answer is to allow only pollution that’s worth what it costs, and not any pollution that isn’t worth what it costs.”

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“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“The essence of the problem is that once we begin to allow exceptions for special interests, we move from a system of private arrangements to a political system where everyone’s freedom is limited and government becomes a matter of trying to balance those interests. Nobody really wins under these terms.”

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“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“We want the kind of world in which greedy people can do the least harm to their fellow men. That’s the kind of world in which power is widely dispersed and each of us has as many alternatives as possible.”

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“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“What kind of society isn’t structured on greed?… So the problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm. It seems to me that the great virtue of capitalism is that it’s that kind of system. Because under capitalism, the power of any one individual over his fellow man is relatively small.”

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“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)

“The draft is inequitable because irrelevant considerations play so large a role in determining who serves. It is wasteful because deferment of students, fathers, and married men jams colleges, raises the birth rate, and fuels divorce court. It is inconsistent with a free society because it exacts compulsory service from some and limits the freedom of others to travel abroad, emigrate, or even to talk and act freely. So long as compulsion is retained, these defects are inevitable.”

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Zdroj: An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966), p. 189 (1975 edition)

“The old saw is that the Quakers went to the New World to do good and ended up doing well. Today, well-meaning reformers go to Washington to do good and end up doing harm.”

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Zdroj: An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966), p. 155

“A military draft is undesirable and unnecessary. We can and should man our armed forces with volunteers—as the United States has traditionally done except in major wars.”

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Zdroj: An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966), p. 121

“Those of us who believe in freedom must believe also in the freedom of individuals to make their own mistakes. If a man knowingly prefers to live for today, to use his resources for current enjoyment, deliberately choosing a penurious old age, by what right do we prevent him from doing so? We may argue with him, seek to persuade him that he is wrong, but are we entitled to use coercion to prevent him from doing what he chooses to do? Is there not always the possibility that he is right and that we are wrong? Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.”

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Milton Friedman kniha Capitalism and Freedom

Zdroj: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 11, Social Welfare Measures, p. 187

“Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible. This is a fundamentally subversive doctrine. If businessmen do have a social responsibility other than making maximum profits for stockholders, how are they to know what it is? Can self-selected private individuals decide what the social interest is? Can they decide how great a burden they are justified in placing on themselves or their stockholders to serve that social interest?”

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Milton Friedman kniha Capitalism and Freedom

Zdroj: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 8 Monopoly and the Social Responsibility of Business and Labor, p. 133

“Exchange is truly voluntary only when nearly equivalent alternatives exist. Monopoly implies the absence of alternatives and thereby inhibits effective freedom of exchange.”

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Milton Friedman kniha Capitalism and Freedom

Zdroj: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 2, The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 28

“Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority. The preservation of freedom requires the elimination of such concentration of power to the fullest possible extent and the dispersal and distribution of whatever power cannot be eliminated — a system of checks and balances.”

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Zdroj: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, p. 15

“The nineteenth-century liberal regarded an extension of freedom as the most effective way to promote welfare and equality; the twentieth-century liberal regards welfare and equality as either prerequisites of or alternatives to freedom.”

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Introduction, p. 5
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

“As it developed in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the intellectual movement that went under the name of liberalism emphasized freedom as the ultimate goal and the individual as the ultimate entity in the society. It supported laissez faire at home as a means of reducing the role of the state in economic affairs and thereby enlarging the role of the individual; it supported free trade abroad as a means of linking the nations of the world together peacefully and democratically. In political matters, it supported the development of representative government and of parliamentary institutions, reduction in the arbitrary power of the state, and protection of the civil freedoms of individuals.”

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Milton Friedman kniha Capitalism and Freedom

Introduction, p. 5
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

“By relying primarily on voluntary co-operation and private enterprise, in both economic and other activities, we can insure that the private sector is a check on the powers of the governmental sector and an effective protection of freedom of speech, of religion, and of thought.”

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Introduction, p. 3
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

“The power to do good is also the power to do harm; those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and, more important, what one man regards as good, another may regard as harm.”

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Milton Friedman kniha Capitalism and Freedom

Introduction, p. 3
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

“The preservation of freedom is the protective reason for limiting and decentralizing governmental power. But there is also a constructive reason. The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. … Government can never duplicate the variety and diversity of individual action.”

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Milton Friedman kniha Capitalism and Freedom

Introduction, pp. 2-3
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

“The Chilean economy did very well, but more important, in the end the central government, the military junta, was replaced by a democratic society. So the really important thing about the Chilean business is that free markets did work their way in bringing about a free society.”

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“Commanding Heights, Interview on PBS” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_miltonfriedman.html, (Oct. 1, 2000)

“The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that’s why it’s so essential to preserving individual freedom.”

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PBS “Interview: On freedom and free markets” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/minitext/int_miltonfriedman.html Commanding Heights series (Oct. 1, 2000)

“Thank heaven that we don’t get all of the government that we are made to pay for.”

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Quoted in the House of Lords, (Nov. 24, 1994), also in Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotes, Third Edition, Elizabeth Knowles, edit., Oxford University Press (2007) p. 124

“After the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism was a failure. Everybody in the world, more or less, agreed that capitalism was a success. And every capitalist country in the world apparently deduced from that what the West needed was more socialism.”

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Milton Friedman: The Rise of Socialism is Absurd and There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKhfR8WC4Eo, Grand opening speech at Cato Institutes’ headquarters in Washington, D.C. (May 1993)

“The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power of government. Tyranny, restrictions on human freedom, come primarily from governmental restrictions that we ourselves have set up.”

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” “Interview with Milton Friedman” https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/interview-with-milton-friedman, David Levy, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (June 1, 1992)

“You can only aim at equality by giving some people the right to take things from others. And what ultimately happens when you aim for equality is that A and B decide what C should do for D, except that they take a bit of commission off on the way.”

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“Milton Friedman vs Free Lunch Advocate” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qe7fLL25AQ (1980s)

“In my opinion, a society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. A society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up with a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed.”

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“Milton Friedman vs Free Lunch Advocate” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qe7fLL25AQ (1980s)

“If you look at every program that the government has adopted in the direction of extending its scope, it took an enormous propaganda campaign by special propaganda groups to get those measures passed. There was no underlining public demand for those measures. On the contrary, the demand had to be created, it had to be developed, it had to be produced. And it was created, it was developed, it was produced, by people… who sincerely wanted to see an expansion in the scope of government.”

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Milton Friedman

“The Social Security Myth” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCdgv7n9xCY&t=124s (1980s)

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Milton Friedman

“Things That Ain’t So by Milton Friedman”, Newsweek (March 10, 1980) p. 79

“That is a widespread myth, that it is possible to spend money with nobody paying for it. You have everybody screaming that we ought to have new, bigger, more generous government programs. Where are we going to raise the money? Tax business. But business corporations can’t pay any taxes. A corporate executive may sign the check, but where does he get the money? From his stockholders or from his customers or from his employees. Unlike the federal government, he doesn’t have a printing press in his basement. So the only way he can pay money to the government is imposing a burden on somebody. Government cannot spend money at nobody’s expense.”

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Milton Friedman

“Economic Myths and Public Opinion” https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/friedman_images/Collections/2016c21/AmSpectator_01_1976.pdf, The Alternative: An American Spectator, vol. 9, no. 4, (January 1976) pp. 5-9

“This leads to my next myth—the myth that government can spend money at nobody’s expense. What was really involved in that last story was that somehow the local people do not pay out the money coming down from Washington somebody else does. Of course, the truth is that the money makes a round trip between Florida and Washington, and there is a discount taken off for cash as it passes through Washington. Some of you may remember that wonderful description of government by the French economist, Frederic Bastiat, who said that government is that fiction whereby everybody believes that he can live at the expense of everybody else.”

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Milton Friedman

“The elementary truth is that the Great Depression was produced by government mismanagement. It was not produced by the failure of private enterprise, it was produced by the failure of government to perform a function which had been assigned to it.”

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" Economic Myths and Public Opinion https://miltonfriedman.hoover.org/friedman_images/Collections/2016c21/AmSpectator_01_1976.pdf” The Alternative: An American Spectator vol. 9, no. 4, (January 1976) pp. 5-9, Reprinted in Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist’s Protest, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1983) pp. 60-75