[T]he burden of government is not measured by how much it taxes, but by how much it spends.
Milton FriedmanBy encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the controls, and by making actions illegal that are in the public interest, the controls undermine individual morality.
Milton FriedmanIf you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
Milton FriedmanThe argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. And the emotional faculties are more highly developed in most men than the rational, paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals.
Milton Friedman