Quotes By Milton Friedman

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

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.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

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