Top 37 Quotes by Milton Friedman

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

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

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.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

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

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

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.