If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
Milton FriedmanThe true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next 25 or 50 years.
Milton FriedmanThanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.
Milton FriedmanBecause we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
Milton Friedman