More Quotes by Milton Friedman
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.
You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.
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 government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.
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.
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.
Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?
Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
