"Governments never learn. Only people learn."
"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government."
"I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible."
"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem."
"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."
"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."
"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless."
Amen. RIP, Dr. Friedman.
great quotes thanks for posting!
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
-- Milton Friedman