Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist.
Milton FriedmanThe way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.
Milton FriedmanI am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
Milton FriedmanDoing good with other people's money has two basic flaws. In the first place, you never spend anybody else's money as carefully as you spend your own. So a large fraction of that money is inevitably wasted. In the second place, and equally important, you cannot do good with other people's money unless you first get the money away from them. So that force - sending a policeman to take the money from somebody's pocket - is fundamentally at the basis of the philosophy of the welfare state.
Milton FriedmanFreedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today's disadvantaged to become tomorrow's privileged and, in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life.
Milton FriedmanBecause it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promises a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. Then it really is an impossible thing.
Milton Friedman