One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it… — 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
A crackpot theory. Instead of saying labor's exploited, as Marx did, Kelso says capital's exploited. It's worse than Marx. It's Marx stood… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There are severe limits to the good that the government can do for the economy, but there are almost no limits to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The smaller the unit of government and the more restricted the functions assigned government, the less likely it is that its actions… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Spending by government currently amounts to about 45 percent of national income. By that test, government owns 45 percent of the means… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I can spend somebody else's money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else's money on somebody else, I'm not concerned… — 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
“Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? . . . And just tell me where in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
They think that the cure to big government is to have bigger government... the only effective cure is to reduce the scope… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The growing role that the government has played in financing and administering schooling has led not only the enormous waste of taxpayers… — 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
Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on… — 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
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
It is my view that what is important is cutting government spending, however spending is financed. A so-called deficit is a disguised… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
If the US government spends 40 percent of the nation's income, as it does through either borrowing or taxes, that income is… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves — 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
The present oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of government mismanagement exacerbated by the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? — 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
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
Higher taxes never reduce the deficit. Governments spend whatever they take in and then whatever they can get away with. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters' own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else. — 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
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I can spend somebody else's money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else's money on somebody else, I'm not concerned… — 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
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
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