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More Quotes by Milton Friedman
The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
A society that puts equality — in the sense of equality of outcome — ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with.
Society doesn't have values. People have values.
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force.
You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.
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.
