Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
MILTON FRIEDMANAnything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
MILTON FRIEDMANGovernments never learn. Only people learn.
MILTON FRIEDMANSociety doesn’t have values. People have values.
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 FRIEDMANWe have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
MILTON FRIEDMANA free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
MILTON FRIEDMANEvery economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.
MILTON FRIEDMANBecause we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
MILTON FRIEDMANI’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 FRIEDMANOnly a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
MILTON FRIEDMANConcentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
MILTON FRIEDMANIn the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.
MILTON FRIEDMANNobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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 FRIEDMANHigher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
MILTON FRIEDMAN