Famous Quotes / Milton Friedman
24 Quotations by Milton Friedman
- 1. A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely what that group thinks they ought to want ...
- 2. A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither.
- 3. Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
- 4. Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance ...
- 5. Governments never learn. Only people learn.
- 6. Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
- 7. History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a ...
- 8. In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.
- 9. Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
- 10. Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect th ...
- 11. Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect th ...
- 12. Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
- 13. Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.
- 14. The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free ...
- 15. The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
- 16. The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless bo ...
- 17. The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is ...
- 18. The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
- 19. The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the lea ...
- 20. There is no free lunch.