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.

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?

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.

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