Milton Friedman Quotes

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. Milton Friedman

What kind of society isn’t structured on greed? 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

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralised government. Milton Friedman

Governments never learn. Only people learn. Milton Friedman

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible. Milton Friedman

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. Milton Friedman

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Milton Friedman

I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. Milton Friedman

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