Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Doing good with other people's money has two basic flaws. In the first place, you never spend anybody else's money as carefully… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The same thing will happen in China that happened in Chile. Political freedom will ultimately break out of its shackles. Tiananmen Square… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The word 'free' is used three times in the Declaration of Independence and once in the First Amendment to the Constitution, along… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I start ... from a belief in individual freedom and that derives fundamentally from a belief in the limitations of our knowledge,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. — 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 Image
To really understand something you've got to reduce it to its principles. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
