Milton Friedman

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#freedom #equality

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

— Milton Friedman

#belief #free #free market #freedom #itself

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#economics

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#bureaucrat #fury #hath #hell #like

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 #many #more #much #people

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

#depression #economy #government #great #great depression

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

— Milton Friedman

#increasingly #subsidizes #system #taxes #work

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#government program #nothing #permanent #program #temporary

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

— Milton Friedman

#bad #problem #solution #usually

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

— Milton Friedman

#am #any #circumstances #cutting #excuse