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More Quotes by Milton Friedman
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
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.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
If capitalism worked as the socialists think an economic system ought to work, and provided a constant equality of living conditions for all, regardless of whether a man was able or not, resourceful or not, diligent or not, thrifty or not, if capitalism put no premiums on resourcefulness and effort and not penalty on idleness or vice, it would produce only an equality of destitution.
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 government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Inflation is taxation without legislation.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
