Ocupation: Economist
Life: July 31, 1912 - November 16, 2006
Birthday: July 31
Death: November 16
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 for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
source: Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.9, University of Chicago Press
topic: Political, Typical, Misery, Free Society