The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
Milton Friedman

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.
Milton Friedman

Governments never learn. Only people learn.
Milton Friedman

There's no such thing as a free lunch.
Milton Friedman

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
Milton Friedman

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Milton Friedman

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman