I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a… — 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
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 Image
A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — 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
Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself ... Economic… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If freedom led to wider inequality, I would prefer that to a world in which I got artificial equality at the expense… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and so prevent a healthy intermingling… — 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
Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There's no way to avoid a burden on your freedom. The costs themselves are a burden on your freedom. The restrictions that… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's disadvantaged to become tomorrow's privileged and, in the process, enables… — 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
