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More Quotes by Milton Friedman
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.
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.
Society doesn't have values. People have values.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
