Is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China… — 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
Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it,… — 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
I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. ... because… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The major basis for my opposition to marijuana prohibition has not been how badly it's worked, the fact that it's produced much… — 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
The difference between me and people like Murray Rothbard is that, though I want to know what my ideal is, I think… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I think there is universal agreement within the economics profession that the decline - the sharp decline in the quantity of money… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If… — 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
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
I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. The reason… — 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
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
I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving… — 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
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
I think it's a scandal what has been happening in the school system so far as lower income classes. The dropout rates,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in… — 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
