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“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Freedom #Liberty #Libertarian
“If you do not force political freedom, economic freedom will be stymied sooner or later.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Political #Economic #Force
“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 a system.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Philosophy #Organization #Greed
“In the 1960s, The National Education Association changed its character. The NEA changed into a union. And from that point on you can see deterioration in the quality of schooling in the United States.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Character #Quality #Deterioration
“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Government #Liberty #Libertarian
“My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers. Fortunately, for me personally, that conclusion has had no practical impact, else there would have been no Central Bank of Sweden to have established the award [Nobel Prize] I am honored to receive.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Impact #Awards #Sweden
“Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. When government-- in pursuit of good intentions tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Motivation #Military #Loss
“There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Operating Systems #Compare
“I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Cutting #Liberty #Taxation
“China has seen a great deal of economic progress. It's certainly rather of a miracle. The growing role of the market in the economy will force China to open up its political system over time and to move toward a more democratic society. So taken as a whole, the one real failure in this whole business has been Russia.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Real #Moving #Taken
“So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Government #People #Ordinary
“The collapse of communism in essence added tens and tens of millions of people to the world labor supply, and the people who were added had previously been getting very low income, but they were not unskilled. Many of them were fairly well educated.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Essence #People #Income
“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Years #Government #Political
“Money is a very powerful thing, which you hardly notice when it goes right, but which can create havoc when it goes wrong.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Powerful #Havoc #Very Powerful
“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 of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual's own good.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Government #People #Liberty
“There's no doubt in my mind that Ronald Reagan was by far the greatest. Because he had real principles and he stuck by them. He made clear what he was going to do, and he did it. He didn't back down.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Real #Doubt #Mind
“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 another.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Party #Pie #Liberty
“The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Government #Problem #Bigs
“Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with somebody else's money, unless you first take it away from them? The only way you can take it away from them is the threat of force: you have a policeman, tax collector, who comes and takes it from them.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Trying #Way #Firsts
“Rich people are the experimental ground for every new development. The nature of progress is that what begins as a luxury for the rich becomes a necessity for the poor as it's developed and passed on.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Luxury #People #Progress
“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

#Civilization #Agriculture #Government
“I can spend somebody else's money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else's money on somebody else, I'm not concerned about how much it is, and I'm not concerned about what I get. And that's government. And that's close to 40 percent of our national income.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Government #Income #Concerned
“The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Civilization #Government #Achievement
“He moves fastest who moves alone.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Moving
“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Philosophy #Government #People
“You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.”
-- Milton Friedman

#World #Marxist #University
“Saying it is one thing. Doing it is very different.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Different
“If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Cutting #Government #Enough
“The state of our educational system is a disgrace to our country. We have an elementary and secondary school system in which close to half of the youngsters never graduate properly. It's a disgrace that there is more illiteracy today than there was 100 years ago.”
-- Milton Friedman

#Country #Educational #School
“I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. The reason I am is because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending. The question is, 'How do you hold down government spending? The only effective way I think to hold it down, is to hold down the amount of income the government has. The way to do that is to cut taxes”
-- Milton Friedman

#Believe #Cutting #Thinking

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