Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
MILTON FRIEDMANNobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
MILTON FRIEDMANPolitical freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
MILTON FRIEDMANEconomic 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 FRIEDMANIf you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.
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 FRIEDMANInflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ‘ that there is no alternative.
MILTON FRIEDMANI would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
MILTON FRIEDMANThe government doesn’t have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
MILTON FRIEDMANMany people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.
MILTON FRIEDMANUnderlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
MILTON FRIEDMANHigher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
MILTON FRIEDMANOne role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
MILTON FRIEDMANYou cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
MILTON FRIEDMAN