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
I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of… — 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
What does it mean to say that government might have a responsibility? Government can't have a responsibility any more than the business… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has… — 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
Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two… — 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
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
"Free markets" is a very general term. There are all sorts of problems that will emerge. Free markets work best when the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“There is a real function for government in respect to pollution: to set conditions and, in particular, define property rights to make… — 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
Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The countries that have risen and separated out as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union are, on the whole,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of… — 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
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 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
There's only one thing that all of the central banks control and that is the base, their own liability, and they can… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“From the founding of the Republic to 1929, spending by governments at all levels, federal, state, and local, never exceeded 12 percent… — 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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