I 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 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 FRIEDMANOne of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
MILTON FRIEDMANNobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
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 FRIEDMANYou cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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 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 FRIEDMANThe unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.
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 FRIEDMANI would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
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 FRIEDMANAnything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
MILTON FRIEDMANMany people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
MILTON FRIEDMANInflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
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.
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