Best Milton Friedman Quotes
- Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power.… Arrangements
- You had a flood of immigrants, millions of them, coming to this country. What brought them here? It was the hope for a better life… Any
- You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing.… Almost Everybody
- What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is… Answer
- Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have… Another Thing
- If you have free immigration, in the way we had it before 1914, everybody benefited. The people who were here benefited. The people who came… Additional
- But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an… Adopt
- Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's… Border
- 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 people who come… Benefits
- The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third… Amount
- To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a… Blindly
- Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist. Arrogance
- There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals… Able
- Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Capitalism
- There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions. Doe
- Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you… Birthday
- What kind of society isn't structured on greed? Greed
- If you really want to engage in policy activity, don't make that your vocation. Make it your avocation. Get a job. Get a secure base… Activity
- Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet. Across
- Prohibition is an attempted cure that makes matters worse - for both the addict and the rest of us. Addict
- Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants to… Abandoning
- The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits Business
- The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade… Anybody
- Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in… Acts
- A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom.… Achieve
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