You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
MILTON FRIEDMANWhen everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
MILTON FRIEDMANSociety doesn’t have values. People have values.
MILTON FRIEDMANAnything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
MILTON FRIEDMANEvery person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers money but also to a far poorer educational system.
MILTON FRIEDMANThere’s nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.
MILTON FRIEDMANInflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
MILTON FRIEDMANMost of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
MILTON FRIEDMANA minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
MILTON FRIEDMANThere’s no such thing as a free lunch.
MILTON FRIEDMANThere are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to the harm it can do.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power – we must have a dispersion of power.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.
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