More Quotes by Milton Friedman
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
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.
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.
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised.
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
