A free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
Milton FriedmanGermany has a very able and productive workforce. It has high-quality products that are valued all over the world. It has every opportunity to be a productive, growing state. It just has to give its entrepreneurs a chance. It has to let them make money, hire and fire, and act like entrepreneurs.
Milton FriedmanA society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.
Milton FriedmanThe most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.
Milton FriedmanI start ... from a belief in individual freedom and that derives fundamentally from a belief in the limitations of our knowledge, from a belief ... that nobody can be sure that what he believes is right, is really right ... I'm an imperfect human being who cannot be certain of anything, so what position ... involved the least intolerance on my part? ... The most attractive position ... is putting individual freedom first.
Milton Friedman