The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state. — 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 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
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
Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The current oil crisis has not been produced by the oil companies. It is a result of governmental mismanagement exacerbated by the… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Our emphasis here is based not only on the growing seriousness of drug-related crimes, but also on the belief that relieving our… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to… — 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
