Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
MILTON FRIEDMANOnly a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou know there are very few Marxists left in the world they’re all in American universities.
MILTON FRIEDMANThere’s no such thing as a free lunch.
MILTON FRIEDMANWith some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.
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 FRIEDMANEvery person shall be free to do good at his own expense.
MILTON FRIEDMANIf you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
MILTON FRIEDMANPolitical freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
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 FRIEDMANYou cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
MILTON FRIEDMANThere is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe word ‘free’ is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with ‘freedom.’ The word ‘fair’ is not used in either of our founding documents.
MILTON FRIEDMANNobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
MILTON FRIEDMANA free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.
MILTON FRIEDMANAnything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
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