Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 1
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 1
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. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
The power to do good is also the power to do harm. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
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 American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed? Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
Most economic fallacies derive - from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
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 American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
[Minimum Wage. In] Free to Choose, ... . . . the minimum wage law to be one of the most, if not the most anti-black law on the statute books. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
I strongly urge the voters of Colorado to reject Referendum C, or any action that would suspend Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights. I strongly favor the continued and uninterrupted use of TABOR, including it's so called ratchet mechanism. The ratchet is one of the best features of TABOR. It is the only thing that will reduce out-of-control government spending. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
Governments never learn. Only people learn. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
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 American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
Inflation is taxation without legislation. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0