Milton Friedman Quotes:
Ocupation: Economist
Life: July 31, 1912 - November 16, 2006
Birthday: July 31
Death: November 16
Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.
source: Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.2, University of Chicago Press
topic: Exercise, Men, Hands, Power Government
