Best Milton Friedman Sayings
- The long-range sloution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly… Costly
- Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands...… Addict
- I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. Force
- The one thing that’s missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash, a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds… B Without
- A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills. Employer
- What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to… Belief
- Cutting government spending and government intrusion in the economy will almost surely involve immediate gain for the many, short-term pain for the few, and long-term… All
- I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to tell people what… Age
- It is taken for granted that workers should receive their pay partly in kind, in the form of medical care provided by the employer. How… Buy
- The evidence of history speaks with a single voice. I do not know any exception to the proposition that if you compare like with like,… Any
- Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else. Believe
- There's a smokestack on the back of every government program. Every Government
- Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in… Everywhere
- The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty… Any
- Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always the special case.… Businessman
- I'm not in favor of no government. You do need a government. But by doing so many things that the government has no business doing,… Alone
- The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper role… Any
- The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather… Achieve
- Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Carefully
- If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough. Cut
- Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe… Anything Like
- To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. ... He recognizes no national… Citizens
- I know of no severe depression, in any country or any time, that was not accompanied by a sharp decline in the stock of money,… Accompanied
- So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud. Competition
- I cannot disagree with you that having something like 500 economists is extremely unhealthy. As you say, it is not conducive to independent, objective research.… Been
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