The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
MILTON FRIEDMANSociety doesn’t have values. People have values.
More Milton Friedman Quotes
-
-
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
The only corporate social responsibility a company has is to maximize its profits.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
Society doesn’t have values. People have values.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
The 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 FRIEDMAN -
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
I’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 FRIEDMAN -
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
MILTON FRIEDMAN -
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
MILTON FRIEDMAN