Primo Quotes

Milton Friedman

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

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Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combina ...

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There's no such thing as a free lunch.

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Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

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The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two ...

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

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The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization ...

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Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party ...

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Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster f ...

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The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits

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You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

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Saying it is one thing. Doing it is very different.

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To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and ...

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

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The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.

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