Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

"The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes."

Milton Friedman

[For those readers who have reached only "entry level" conservatism, I believe that the above quote points out one of the biggest BENEFITS of the internet - Salt]

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - 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

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - 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

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Milton Friedman

Quote of the day - Milton Friedman

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman