If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment.
Milton FriedmanA free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
Milton FriedmanWhen you have a time of crisis what happens depends on what ideas are floating around, and what ideas have been developed, and thought through, and are made effective.
Milton FriedmanIn the current world, with the skills needed, dropouts [like no secondary education] are condemned to being members of the underclass. In my view, this is a fault of the American school system, which is a government monopoly.
Milton FriedmanThe important issue is not how much inequality there is but how much opportunity there is for individuals to get out of the bottom classes and into the top. If there is enough movement upward, people will accept the efficiency of the markets. If you have opportunity, there is a great tolerance for inequality. That has been the saving grace of the American system.
Milton Friedman