Milton Friedman

The most harm of all is done when power is in the hands of people who are absolutely persuaded of the purity of their instincts and intentions.

Higher taxes of any kind, direct or indirect, are bad economics and even worse politics.

Daise the wage of airline pilots, and air travel will become more expensive. Fewer people will fly, and there will be fewer jobs for airline pilots.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

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

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

It’s so hard for people to get out of the notion that life is a zero-sum game. They think if one man benefits, another must lose. But in a free market, both people can benefit.

If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.

The programs that are labeled as being for the poor, for the needy, almost always have effects exactly the opposite of those which their well-intentioned sponsors intend them to have.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Higher taxes will not reduce the deficit, except for a brief interval. They will simply increase government spending. That is the lesson taught by past experiences.

Human and political freedom has never existed and cannot exist without a large measure of economic freedom.

There is one thing that you can trust everybody to do, and that is to put his interest above yours.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

In a bureaucratic system, useless work drives out useful work.