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

The advantage of the cauliflower is that if all else fails, you can always cover it with melted cheese and eat it.

Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

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

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.

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.