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
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
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
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 American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience. Milton Friedman American Economist More Milton Friedman Quotes 0
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