Quotes From Uncle Milty

Great quotes from famed economist Milton Friedman:

“Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.”

“I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so.”

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.”

“Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.”

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”

“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.”

“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.”

“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.”

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