Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If you look at the balance sheet, the US is heavily in debt. If you look at the income account - the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If we have system in which government is in a position to give large favor - it's human nature to try to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
. . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The preservation of liberty, not the promotion of efficiency, is the primary justification for private property. Efficiency is a happy, though not… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The problem is that, in a world of floating exchange rates, as Italy was before the euro, if one country is subjected… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You can only make money if you buy a product, whatever it is - maybe a currency, maybe wheat and maybe something… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If capitalism worked as the socialists think an economic system ought to work, and provided a constant equality of living conditions for… — 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
If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
So long as large sums of money are involved - and they are bound to be if drugs are illegal - it… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The important issue is not how much inequality there is but how much opportunity there is for individuals to get out of… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If you spend your own money on yourself, you care how much you spend and how well you spend it. If you… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If a country is an attractive place for foreigners to invest their funds, then that country will have a relatively high exchange… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest.… — 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
