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More Quotes by Milton Friedman
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's money on someone else, he does't care how much he spends or what he spends it on. And that's government for you.
Society doesn't have values. People have values.
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
