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More Quotes by Milton Friedman
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along with 'freedom.' The word 'fair' is not used in either of our founding documents.
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.
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
