Milton Friedman Quotes

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

» Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

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

» 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.

» Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

» 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.

» There's no such thing as a free lunch.

» 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.

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

» 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.

» 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.

» We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

» Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

» Governments never learn. Only people learn.

» I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

» 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.

» The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

» 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.

» 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.

» One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

» Inflation is taxation without legislation.

» Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

» History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom.

» Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

» The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

» Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

» If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

» 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.

» 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.

» The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

» Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

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