Milton Friedman

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

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

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

The argument about zoning and the presidency of Nigeria is like the philosophical argument of the egg or the hen. Who is older through the evolutionary process, who came first?