Quotes By 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.

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

History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

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.

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

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

Governments never learn. Only people learn.