Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

If you really want to help the poor, help the rich. They're the ones who will invest, build more factories, create more jobs.

I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

Friedmans influence reaches far beyond the academic community and the world of economics. Rather than lock himself in an ivory tower, he has joined the fray to fight for the survival of this great country of ours.

Is it not strange that the descendants of those Pilgrim Fathers who crossed the Atlantic to preserve their own freedom of opinion have always proved themselves intolerant of the spiritual liberty of others?

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.

The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.