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Inflation is taxation without legislation - Milton Friedman Quotes

Inflation is taxation without legislation

Milton Friedman

There's no such thing as a free lunch. - Milton Friedman Quotes

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Milton Friedman

American Economist

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

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

Milton Friedman

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. - Milton Friedman Quotes

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Milton Friedman

American Economist

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 Quotes

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

Have all these countries found a genius like Greenspan? ... What the foreign experience suggests is, you don't need a genius. You just need someone willing to make fighting inflation his top priority. - Milton Friedman Quotes

Have all these countries found a genius like Greenspan? ... What the foreign experience suggests is, you don't need a genius. You just need someone willing to make fighting inflation his top priority.

Milton Friedman

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. - Milton Friedman Quotes

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Milton Friedman

American Economist Depression

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

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

Milton Friedman

American Economist

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. - Milton Friedman Quotes

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

Milton Friedman

American Economist Benefit

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government - Milton Friedman Quotes

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

Milton Friedman

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

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

Milton Friedman

American Economist Circumstances

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship - Milton Friedman Quotes

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship

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 Quotes

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

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand - Milton Friedman Quotes

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand

Milton Friedman

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program - Milton Friedman Quotes

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program

Milton Friedman

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman Quotes

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Milton Friedman

American Economist

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property. - Milton Friedman Quotes

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.

Milton Friedman

When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it.When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else,he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhatless what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's moneyto buy something for himself, he is very careful about what hebuys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a manspends someone else's money on someone else, he doesn't care howmuch he spends or what he spends it on. And that's governmentfor you. - Milton Friedman Quotes

When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,he is very careful about how much he spends and how he spends it.When a man spends his own money to buy something for someone else,he is still very careful about how much he spends, but somewhatless what he spends it on. When a man spends someone else's moneyto buy something for himself, he is very careful about what hebuys, but doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a manspends someone else's money on someone else, he doesn't care howmuch he spends or what he spends it on. And that's governmentfor you.

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 Quotes

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

American Economist Drugs

Governments never learn. Only people learn. - Milton Friedman Quotes

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Milton Friedman

American Economist People

So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not - Milton Friedman Quotes

So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not

Milton Friedman

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. - Milton Friedman Quotes

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.

Milton Friedman

American Economist Freedom

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. - Milton Friedman Quotes

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

Milton Friedman

American Economist Inflation

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 - Milton Friedman Quotes

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

Milton Friedman

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. - Milton Friedman Quotes

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

Milton Friedman

American Economist Government

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman Quotes

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

Milton Friedman

American Economist

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

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

Milton Friedman

American Economist Power

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

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom

Milton Friedman

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience - Milton Friedman Quotes

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience

Milton Friedman

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. - Milton Friedman Quotes

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.

Milton Friedman

American Economist Economy

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. - Milton Friedman Quotes

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Milton Friedman

American Economist Hell

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. - Milton Friedman Quotes

The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.

Milton Friedman

American Economist People

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive. - Milton Friedman Quotes

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

Milton Friedman

American Economist Majority

The power to do good is also the power to do harm. - Milton Friedman Quotes

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

Milton Friedman

American Economist Power

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 Quotes

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

American Economist Government

[Minimum Wage. In] Free to Choose, ... . . . the minimum wage law to be one of the most, if not the most anti-black law on the statute books. - Milton Friedman Quotes

[Minimum Wage. In] Free to Choose, ... . . . the minimum wage law to be one of the most, if not the most anti-black law on the statute books.

Milton Friedman

Law

One thing you can say about Lew, he is persistent. And he's consistent as well as persistent. He has a well-based position which he's figured out, and he sticks to it. - Milton Friedman Quotes

One thing you can say about Lew, he is persistent. And he's consistent as well as persistent. He has a well-based position which he's figured out, and he sticks to it.

Milton Friedman

Of course, we'd like to have another one, ... Though wouldn't it be better if we learned that we could do without one? - Milton Friedman Quotes

Of course, we'd like to have another one, ... Though wouldn't it be better if we learned that we could do without one?

Milton Friedman

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 Quotes

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

American Economist

If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention. This is an important reason why many earlier liberals, like Henry Simons, writing at a time when government was small by today's standards, were willing to have government undertake activities that today's liberals would not accept now that government has become so overgrown. - Milton Friedman Quotes

If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention. This is an important reason why many earlier liberals, like Henry Simons, writing at a time when government was small by today's standards, were willing to have government undertake activities that today's liberals would not accept now that government has become so overgrown.

Milton Friedman

I strongly urge the voters of Colorado to reject Referendum C, or any action that would suspend Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights. I strongly favor the continued and uninterrupted use of TABOR, including it's so called ratchet mechanism. The ratchet is one of the best features of TABOR. It is the only thing that will reduce out-of-control government spending. - Milton Friedman Quotes

I strongly urge the voters of Colorado to reject Referendum C, or any action that would suspend Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights. I strongly favor the continued and uninterrupted use of TABOR, including it's so called ratchet mechanism. The ratchet is one of the best features of TABOR. It is the only thing that will reduce out-of-control government spending.

Milton Friedman

So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not - Milton Friedman Quotes

So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not

Milton Friedman

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. - Milton Friedman Quotes

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.

Milton Friedman

American Economist

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 Quotes

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

American Economist

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