Milton Friedman Quotes

You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

Milton Friedman

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• The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Truth
  • Search
  • Mark

• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Power
  • Help
  • Words

• I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Myself
  • Accomplish

• I had no interest in steroids. I didn't need them, and I didn't want them. I never wanted them. From the get-go, I've frequently mouthed off about their negative impact on the game.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Game
  • Want
  • Negative

• I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Team
  • Tennis
  • Volleyball

• The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Long
  • Together
  • Success

• I don't really know what 'a dark place' means. I have windows in my house, and I'm generally an upbeat person! A lot of people throw that word at me because I wear a lot of black and leather.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • People
  • House
  • Black

• Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • English
  • Flourish

• I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Character
  • Myself
  • Makeup

• You ever go eat breakfast at Denny's, and then go to the toilet and sit in there so long you gotta order lunch from the stool? You ever do that? Now I know why they call it the Grand Slam?

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Long
  • Why
  • Breakfast

• I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Music

• You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

  

  Emanuel Steward
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I regard many of the neoconservatives as personal friends, but that's not stopped them from behaving with extraordinary viciousness towards those of us who raised the immigration issue.

  

  Peter Brimelow
  • Friends
  • Immigration

• I get about 25 letters a month, and I answer every one of them.

  

  Mary Ann Mobley

• The financial service industry has an image issue.

  

  Adena Friedman
  • Service
  • Financial

• I'm quite a reserved person, a bit shy at first when I don't know someone. I like to have a laugh and a joke; people have seen that in me.

  

  Anthony Martial
  • People

• If the wealthy get wealthier, no one has to become one penny poorer.

  

  David Harsanyi

• Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

  

  Bruce Boxleitner
  • Different
  • War
  • Movie

• My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.

  

  John Cena
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • Sports

• When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right ; when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world.

  

  Confucius
  • Heart
  • Achieved
  • Personal Life

• The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Poor
  • Loss
  • Benefits

• Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

  

  Jon Kyl
  • Control
  • Immigration
  • Resources

• You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

  

  Milton Friedman
  • Immigration
  • State
  • Welfare