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More Quotes by Milton Friedman
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.
The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
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.
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.
