Logo
Quote by Milton Friedman
A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that gr

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. – Milton Friedman

Other quotes by Milton Friedman

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy. – Milton Friedman

Category:
Government
Author
Milton Friedman
Read Quote

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system. – Milton Friedman

Category:
Government
Author
Milton Friedman
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Freedom
category

It the British System is the most gigantic system of slavery the world has yet seen, and therefore it is that freedom gradually disappears from every country over which England is enabled to obtain control. – Henry Charles Carey

Category:
Freedom

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – George Orwell

Category:
Freedom

Men like me, who merely wish to establish political freedom, will in such circumstances lose all their influence, and others will get influence who may become dangerous to all established interests whatsoever. – Lajos Kossuth

Category:
Freedom

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time one must always go forward – or go back. He who now talks about the freedom of the press goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. – Vladimir Lenin

Category:
Freedom

Random Quotes

Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower. – Jean Paul Richter

Category:
Adversity

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. – Carl Rogers

Category:
Art

AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. – Susan Sontag

Category:
Sex

I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor. – Peter Segal

Category:
Humor