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

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

  • 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.

  • The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

  • The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.