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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.
— Milton Friedman
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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.
— Milton Friedman
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One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.
— Milton Friedman
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Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
— Milton Friedman
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Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?
— Milton Friedman
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History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
— Milton Friedman
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