Milton Friedman Quotes & Quotations

Milton Friedman Quotes

» History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

» A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

» Governments never learn. Only people learn.

» Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

» The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

» 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.

» Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

» Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

» The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

» Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

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