The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

Milton Friedman

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

Milton Friedman

You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.

Milton Friedman

He moves fastest who moves alone.

Milton Friedman

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

Milton Friedman

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

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

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

Milton Friedman

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

Milton Friedman

The government doesn't have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others.

Milton Friedman

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

Milton Friedman

Governments never learn. Only people learn.

Milton Friedman