Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidity.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.