Milton Friedman
  • Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

  • So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

  • The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

  • Governments never learn. Only people learn.

  • If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.