The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
People who intend only to serve public interest are led by invisible hand to private interest which was no part of their… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
How can thinking people believe that a government that cannot deliver the mail can deliver gas better than Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn't do a thing for the people… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
On aging societies, there is no reason why a country that has a lot of old people can't be prosperous if, during… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If instead of looking at income, you look at levels of consumption, if anything that's become more equal. The fraction of families… — 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
People who intend only to seek their own benefit are “led by an invisible hand to serve a public interest which was… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is… — 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
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
What happened was that for every $100 of money, by which I mean the cash that people keep in their pockets, and… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is most attractive about the US to people and countries with wealth is that it can provide security, insurance really, against… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be… — 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?… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You can travel from one end of the industrialized world to the other and almost the only people you will find engaging… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I think in some ways it would make more sense to have as a poverty level a relative concept and say, the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
As a nation, we have been responsible for the murder of literally hundreds of thousands of people at home and abroad by… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It's a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don't approve… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions, rather than their results. We all know a… — 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… — 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
