Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. Milton Friedman Politics
Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. Milton Friedman Government
The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes. Milton Friedman Government
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. Milton Friedman Knowledge
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people. Milton Friedman Government
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Milton Friedman Freedom
History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition. Milton Friedman Freedom
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. Milton Friedman Freedom