Best Milton Friedman Lines
- The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. Advances
- Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. Conservative
- Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. Consumer
- Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. Concentrated
- Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. Athlete
- The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. Any
- I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. Any
- Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of… Assume
- Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. Correcting
- Inflation is taxation without legislation. Conservative
- There's no such thing as a free lunch. Economics
- Governments never learn. Only people learn. Economics
- Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Argument
- The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory… Achievement
- The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. Benefit
- Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the… Alcohol
- The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why… Been
- The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of… Arrangement
- Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. Business
- And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon… American
- I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most… According
- Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? Capitalism
- History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. Capitalism
- The power to do good is also the power to do harm. Good
- Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive. Capitalism
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