Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power. The kind of economic organization that provides economic freedom directly, namely, competitive capitalism, also promotes political freedom because it separates economic power from political power and in this way enables the one to offset the other
Milton FriedmanOnly government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
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 FriedmanYou will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing. 'But what about today? Do you think we should have free immigration?' 'Oh, no,' they'll say, 'We couldn't possibly have free immigration today. Why, that would flood us with immigrants from India, and God knows where. We'd be driven down to a bare subsistence level.'
Milton FriedmanThe way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.
Milton Friedman