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
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Italy may well be the main problem. It has benefited most from the euro by having been able to get the euro… — 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
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
Economists may not know much. But we know one thing very well: how to produce surpluses and shortages. Do you want a… — 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 collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people… — 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
The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the… — 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
