Critical Thinking and Counterarguments – Quote by Milton Friedman
“You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.”
Milton Friedman
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The Three Functions of Government – Milton Friedman on State Role and Freedom
“Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government– in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.”
Milton Friedman
Education Critique by Thomas Sowell
“Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.”
Thomas Sowell
Milton Friedman: Government Solutions and Their Consequences
“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”
Milton Friedman
Anarchist Society and the State – Murray Rothbard
“I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.”
Murray Rothbard
“You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state” – Milton Friedman
“You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.”
Milton Friedman
Henry Ford on Education and Independent Thinking
“The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.”
Henry Ford
“A poor man is not the one without a cent” – Henry Ford
“A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.”
Henry Ford
Quote About Reason and Madness by Aldous Huxley
“Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.”
Aldous Huxley
Milton Friedman Quote on the Free Market and Freedom
“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
Milton Friedman