Milton Friedman

The facts never speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted in terms of some understanding of ...

How did we make the transition from using wood to using coal, from using coal to using oil, from usi ...

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict ...

If China don't free up the political side, its economic growth will come to an end - while it is sti ...

With respect to teachers' salaries .... Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly ...

Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody el ...

The euro is good for Europe. But only if there is flexibility all around.

Rapid increases in the quantity of money produce inflation. Sharp decreases produce depression.

Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value ...

Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, ...

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler re ...

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities ...

The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the lea ...

We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what th ...