“We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.”

-Milton Friedman

“There is nothing so permanent as a temporary government program.”

-Milton Friedman

“Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problen is to protect the consumer from the government.”

-Milton Friedman

“The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn’t construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn’t revolutionize the automobile industry that way.”

-Milton Friedman

“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”

-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