Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
MILTON FRIEDMANHell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can’t do that.
MILTON FRIEDMANPolitical freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
MILTON FRIEDMANOnly a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
MILTON FRIEDMANThere’s no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn’t back down.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.
MILTON FRIEDMANHigher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
MILTON FRIEDMANI am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
MILTON FRIEDMANI am a libertarian with a small “l” and a Republican with a capital “R”. And I am a Republican with a capital “R” on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
MILTON FRIEDMANA society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
MILTON FRIEDMAN