From 99e4c58d854321222b6bc96e4c00140988fbc8e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fdai7375 Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 10:27:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] feat: add more Milton Friedman quotes --- src/builtins/quote.rs | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/builtins/quote.rs b/src/builtins/quote.rs index ea19d3f..653da96 100644 --- a/src/builtins/quote.rs +++ b/src/builtins/quote.rs @@ -23,7 +23,17 @@ const QUOTES: &[(&str, &str)] = &[ ("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.", "Milton Friedman"), ("The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.", "Milton Friedman"), ("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.", "Milton Friedman"), - ("Thank heaven that we don’t get all of the government that we are made to pay for.", "Milton Friedman") + ("Thank heaven that we don’t get all of the government that we are made to pay for.", "Milton Friedman"), + ("The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.", "Milton Friedman"), + ("There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government. And that’s close to 40% of our national income.", "Milton Friedman"), + ("I am a libertarian with a small \"l\" and a Republican with a capital \"R\". And I am a Republican with a capital \"R\" on grounds of expediency, not on principle.", "Milton Friedman"), + ("You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.", "Milton Friedman"), + ("I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. … because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending. I believe our government is too large and intrusive, that we do not get our money's worth for the roughly 40 percent of our income that is spent by government … How can we ever cut government down to size? I believe there is one and only one way: the way parents control spendthrift children, cutting their allowance. For government, that means cutting taxes.", "Milton Friedman"), + ("Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but all of which ultimately point to the right answer. Now Keynes, in The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, set forth a hypothesis which was a beautiful one, and it really altered the shape of economics. But it turned out that it was a wrong hypothesis. That doesn't mean that he wasn't a great man!", "Milton Friedman"), + ("Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. … And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.", "Milton Friedman"), + ("If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.", "Milton Friedman"), + ("The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.", "Milton Friedman"), + ("I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.", "Milton Friedman"), ]; impl Builtin for Quote {