Milton Friedman quotes

" There is nothing so permanent as a temporary government program. " # Government

" The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. " # Government # Freedom # Power

" The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time. " # Time and Time Management

" We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes non-work. " # Taxes and Taxation # Thoughts and Thinking # Belief

" If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara desert in five years there’d be a shortage of sand. " # Involvement # Government # Age and Aging

" Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. " # Inflation # Law and Lawyers # Congress

" Governments never learn. Only people learn. " # Government

" History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. " # Capitalism # Freedom # Politicians and Politics

" A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither. " # Freedom

" A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. " # Freedom # Power # Hope