Milton Friedman Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.”

“Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.”

“I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.”

“The power to do good is also the power to do harm.”

“Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.”

“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.”

“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”

“Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”

“Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.”