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

Milton Friedman
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck - Toba Beta

  2. It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once. - Nina Lacour

  3. Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards. - Diogenes Of Sinope

  4. Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth. - Banana Yoshimoto

  5. The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them. It’s for their own good. - Sophie Kinsella

More Quotes By Milton Friedman
  1. A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

  2. I think that nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individual’s natural right to property, and giving individuals a sense that they own something that they’re responsible for, that they have control over, and that they can dispose of.

  3. Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The scientist seeking to advance the frontiers of his discipline, the missionary seeking to convert infidels to the true faith, the philanthropist seeking to...

  4. The ICC [Interstate Commerce Commission] illustrates what might be called the natural history of government intervention. A real or fancied evil leads to demands to do something about it. A political coalition forms consisting of sincere, high-minded reformers and equally sincere interested parties. The incompatible...

  5. For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong. If all we want are jobs, we can create any number--for...

Related Topics