If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.
Milton FriedmanI think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.
Milton FriedmanPolitical leaders in capitalist countries who cheer the collapse of socialism in other countries continue to favor socialist solutions in their own. They know the words, but they have not learned the tune.
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