Milton Friedman
Quotations
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“The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.” -Milton Friedman
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“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 greed? You think China doesn’t run on greed? What is greed?” -Milton Friedman
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“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.” -Milton Friedman
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“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.” -Milton Friedman
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“The power to do good is also the power to do harm.” -Milton Friedman
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“Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.” -Milton Friedman
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“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.” -Milton Friedman
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“History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.” -Milton Friedman
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“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 under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way.” -Milton Friedman
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“The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.” -Milton Friedman
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“Governments never learn. Only people learn.” -Milton Friedman
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“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.” -Milton Friedman
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“History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.” -Milton Friedman
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“Inflation is taxation without legislation.” -Milton Friedman
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“The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.” -Milton Friedman
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“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.” -Milton Friedman
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