More Quotes by Milton Friedman
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.
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
