Milton Friedman Quotes

"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."
-Milton Friedman in Bureaucracy quotes.

"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

"I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal."
-Milton Friedman

"So the question is, do corporate executives, provided they stay within the law, have responsibilities in their business activities other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible? And my answer to that is, no they do not."
-Milton Friedman

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
-Milton Friedman

"Governments never learn. Only people learn."
-Milton Friedman

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
-Milton Friedman in Government quotes.

"There is no free lunch."
-Milton Friedman

"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
-Milton Friedman in Civilization quotes.

"A society that puts equality... ahead of freedom will end up with neither. ."
-Milton Friedman

"In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work."
-Milton Friedman

"There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud."
-Milton Friedman