The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
—Milton Friedman
Topics: Government
The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power—we must have a dispersion of power.
—Milton Friedman
Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation.
—Milton Friedman
What kind of society isn’t structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.
—Milton Friedman
Topics: Capitalism, Greed
The economic race should not be arranged so everyone arrives at the finish line at the same time but so that everyone starts at the starting line at the same time.
—Milton Friedman
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