Milton Friedman

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

— Milton Friedman

How do you hold down government spending?

— Milton Friedman

There is no good way of measuring poverty.

— Milton Friedman

He moves fastest who moves alone.

— Milton Friedman

“Silence was pleased.”

— Milton Friedman

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

— Milton Friedman

Statistics do not speak for themselves.

— Milton Friedman

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

— Milton Friedman

The euro is going to be a big source of problems, not a source of help.

— Milton Friedman

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.

— Milton Friedman

The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.

— Milton Friedman

“Lo que importa no es la inflación per se, sino la inflación no anticipada”

— Milton Friedman

There is only one social responsibility of business

— Milton Friedman

Unfortunately, unanimity is not always feasible.

— Milton Friedman

Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.

— Milton Friedman

The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.

— Milton Friedman

In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

— Milton Friedman

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more…

— Milton Friedman

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

— Milton Friedman

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

— Milton Friedman

Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.

— Milton Friedman

The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence…

— Milton Friedman

The excuse for the destruction of liberty is always the plea of necessary ' that there is no alternative

— Milton Friedman

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree…

— Milton Friedman

Central bankers always try to avoid their last big mistake. So every time there's the threat of a contraction in the economy,…

— Milton Friedman

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most…

— Milton Friedman

Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same…

— Milton Friedman

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

A society that aims for equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first…

— Milton Friedman

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps…

— Milton Friedman

You could not possibly maintain the current level of government taxation without the taxes being hidden, and they are hidden in two…

— Milton Friedman

We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of…

— Milton Friedman

A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing…

— Milton Friedman

The lesson for Asia is; if you have a central bank, have a floating exchange rate; if you want to have a…

— Milton Friedman

It is most attractive about the US to people and countries with wealth is that it can provide security, insurance really, against…

— Milton Friedman

Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be…

— Milton Friedman

I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to…

— Milton Friedman

If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The…

— Milton Friedman

“Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction,…

— Milton Friedman

“When unions get higher wages for their members by restricting entry into an occupation, those higher wages are at the expense of…

— Milton Friedman