One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“There is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The future of private enterprise capitalism is also the future of a free society. There is no possibility of having a politically… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
A private enterprise system needs some measuring rod, it needs something, it needs money to make its transactions. You can't run a… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Political leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a different point… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles. — Milton Friedman Copy Share
It is a mark of how far we have gone on the road to serfdom that government allocation and rationing of oil is the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
“The people in one district can choose not to reelect their member of Congress, but that will not change the composition of the government… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
When you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others. — Milton Friedman Copy Share
What would the people who sold us goods do with the money? They'd get dollars. What would they do with the dollars? Eat them?! — Milton Friedman Copy Share
World trade depends on differences among countries, not similarities. Different countries are in different stages of development. It is appropriate for them to have… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior. — Milton Friedman Copy Share
It is most attractive about the US to people and countries with wealth is that it can provide security, insurance really, against political instability.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
Hong Kong is the bellwether. If the Chinese stick to their agreement to let Hong Kong go its own path, then China will also… — Milton Friedman Copy Share
