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"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in five years there would be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-08T23:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements

"A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it does this task so well: it gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-09T14:35Z 24.7K followers, 23.7K engagements

"Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-09T23:48Z 24.7K followers, 17.5K engagements

"What kind of society isnt structured on greed The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-11T13:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-11T17:04Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"Inflation is made in Washington because only Washington can create money. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-13T00:18Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"The Great Depression was produced by government mismanagement. It was not produced by the failure of private enterprise; it was produced by the failure of government to perform a function which had been assigned to it. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-13T16:32Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"A left-wing activist disrupting Milton Friedmans Nobel Prize ceremony in 1976"
X Link 2025-09-14T15:36Z [---] followers, [----] engagements

"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-15T13:15Z 24.7K followers, 230.9K engagements

"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-17T11:40Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Inflation is produced and exacerbated by the government"
X Link 2025-09-18T20:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in five years thered be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-18T23:36Z 24.7K followers, 14.9K engagements

"Its always so attractive to be able to do good at somebody elses expense. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-20T23:18Z 24.7K followers, 20.2K engagements

"The government doesnt have any money. The only power it has is to take from some and give to others. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-21T21:23Z 24.7K followers, 21.4K engagements

"The high rate of unemployment among teenagers and especially black teenagers is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-22T17:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us and history confirms that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-22T21:08Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"A society which is socialist cannot also be democratic. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-24T23:18Z 24.7K followers, 16.6K engagements

"The source of tolerance is the recognition that none of us have the absolute truth. There can be no tolerance without humility. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-25T16:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Every line here is gold"
X Link 2025-09-25T23:16Z 24.7K followers, 15.8K engagements

"Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power better in the county than in the state better in the state than in Washington. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-26T12:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Freedom has prevailed where you have capitalism. And so has the well-being and prosperity of the ordinary men. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-26T16:08Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"The greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-27T13:36Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"The emotional facilities are more highly developed in most men than the rational paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-29T13:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Only government can take perfectly good paper cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-30T16:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Why Government is the Problem A classic essay by Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-30T23:22Z 24.7K followers, 13.3K engagements

"What we urgently need for both economic stability and growth is a reduction of government intervention not an increase. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-01T23:22Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Milton Friedman: Inflation is made in Washington because only Washington can create money"
X Link 2025-10-02T17:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-03T20:06Z 24.7K followers, 10.2K engagements

"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-12T18:15Z 24.7K followers, 12.9K engagements

"A left-wing activist disrupting Milton Friedmans Nobel Prize ceremony in 1976"
X Link 2025-10-13T17:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Milton Friedman: The government doesnt have any money. Only people have money. The government only gets money by putting its hand in your pocket and taking it out"
X Link 2025-10-08T13:25Z 24.7K followers, 387.1K engagements

"You cant simultaneously have a welfare state and free immigration. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-09T17:15Z 24.7K followers, 534.7K engagements

"Ludwig von Mises calls Milton Friedman a socialist"
X Link 2025-10-10T17:55Z 24.7K followers, 31.4K engagements

"Inflation is just like alcoholism. In both cases when you start drinking or when you start printing too much money the good effects come first. The bad effects only come later. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-13T23:16Z 24.7K followers, 28.4K engagements

"Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-14T13:18Z 24.7K followers, 16K engagements

"The I Pencil essay brilliantly explained by Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-14T17:08Z 24.7K followers, 30.1K engagements

"The power to do good is also the power to do harm. Those who control the power today may not tomorrow; and more important what one man regards as good another may regard as harm. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-16T17:14Z [----] followers, 11.5K engagements

"When governmentin pursuit of good intentionstries to rearrange the economy legislate morality or help special interests the costs come in inefficiency lack of motivation and loss of freedom. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-17T13:32Z 24.7K followers, 11.7K engagements

"Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-17T23:28Z 24.7K followers, 12.7K engagements

"What the market does is to reduce greatly the range of issues that must be decided through political means and thereby to minimize the extent to which government need participate directly in the game. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-19T19:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Asking economists for investment advice is like asking a physicist to fix a broken toilet. Not their field though sort of related. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-20T13:48Z 24.7K followers, 61.7K engagements

"Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice and private initiativethe building blocks of success throughout our society. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-20T19:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-21T23:13Z 24.7K followers, 10.3K engagements

"The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-22T13:20Z 24.7K followers, 21.8K engagements

"Milton Friedman on why the Federal Reserve should be abolished"
X Link 2025-10-22T17:14Z [----] followers, 10.5K engagements

"Inflation is caused by too much money chasing after too few goods. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-22T23:08Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Thepricesystem works so well so efficiently that we are not aware of it most of the time. We never realize how well it functions until it is prevented from functioning and even then we seldom recognize the source of the trouble. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-23T13:33Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"The battle for freedom must be won over and over again. The socialists in all parties to whom Hayek dedicated The Road to Serfdom must once again be persuaded or defeated if they and we are to remain free men. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-23T23:24Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"If a private enterprise is a failure it closes downunless it can get a government subsidy to keep it going. If a government enterprise fails it is expanded. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-25T14:42Z 24.7K followers, 34.3K engagements

"The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce be it in the hands of a monarch a dictator an oligarchy or a momentary majority. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-26T13:23Z 24.7K followers, 12.2K engagements

"If all we want are jobs we can create any numberfor example have people dig holes and then fill them up again or perform other useless tasks. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-28T13:21Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Javier Milei @JMilei quotes Milton Friedman A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both"
X Link 2025-10-28T17:10Z 24.7K followers, 26.8K engagements

"When you start paying people to be poor you wind up with an awful lot of poor people. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-29T13:26Z 24.7K followers, 28.4K engagements

"The 19th century the period which people denigrate as a high tide of capitalism was the period of the greatest outpouring of charitable activity that the world has ever known. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-30T19:51Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Nothing is so important for freedom as recognizing in the law each individuals natural right to property and giving individuals a sense that they own something that theyre responsible for. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-10-31T18:05Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Milton Friedman on governments four major functions: 1) Ensure national defense 2) Protect citizens from abuse and coercion by other citizens 3) Define and uphold private property rights 4) Maintain a judicial system to adjudicate disputes and enforce rules"
X Link 2025-11-02T15:25Z 24.7K followers, 172.6K engagements

"The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didnt construct his theory under order from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didnt revolutionize the automobile industry that way. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-02T19:25Z 24.7K followers, 38.5K engagements

"The great enemy of human freedom is the government. By taking money out of our pockets and spending it it destroys our freedom. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-03T14:56Z 24.7K followers, 14.8K engagements

"Freedom is not the natural state of mankind. It is a rare and wonderful achievement. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-05T14:24Z 24.7K followers, 26.9K engagements

"The record of history is absolutely clear: there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to free-market capitalism. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-05T18:16Z 24.7K followers, 33.9K engagements

"The great danger to the consumer is the monopolywhether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-06T14:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Bernie Sanders sounds just like that Communist official Milton Friedman met in the 1960s The official said replacing shovels with a machine would be bad because many construction workers would lose their jobs. Friedmans answer: Why not use spoons Stop hiring humans. The Era of AI Employees is Here. Billboards across the country are promoting the replacement of millions of jobs with AI and robotics. Great idea. One simple question: How will those displaced workers survive when there are no jobs or income for them https://t.co/EstPlRMhV5 Stop hiring humans. The Era of AI Employees is Here."
X Link 2025-11-06T18:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in five years thered be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-07T00:19Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Elon Musk: Its like what Milton Friedman saidmoney is most poorly spent when youre spending someone elses money on people you dont know. Thats the federal government"
X Link 2025-11-07T15:25Z 24.7K followers, 72.8K engagements

"The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-09T15:28Z 24.7K followers, 20.3K engagements

"There is nothing which will destroy a society so thoroughly and so fully as letting inflation run riot. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-10T14:36Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Believers in aristocracy and socialism share a faith in centralized rule in rule by command rather than by voluntary cooperation. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-12T00:06Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Free trade helps create harmony"
X Link 2025-11-13T16:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Spending on education has been skyrocketing yet by common consent the quality of education has been declining. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-13T21:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Elon Musk: Generally whatever Milton Friedman said people should do that thing"
X Link 2025-11-15T15:28Z [----] followers, 29.8K engagements

"What ultimately happens when you aim for equality is that A and B decide what C should do for D except that they take a bit of commission off on the way. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-15T18:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The role of government"
X Link 2025-11-17T14:19Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Freedom has prevailed where you have capitalism. And so has the well-being and prosperity of the ordinary men. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-17T18:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"POV: Youre a welfare-state advocate debating Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell at the same time"
X Link 2025-11-17T23:47Z [----] followers, 46.5K engagements

"The US public like the British public is fed up with high taxes and high government spending. Milton Friedman in a [----] letter to Thatcher"
X Link 2025-11-19T13:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Milton Friedman: If the federal government spends $450 billion and only raises $400 billion in taxes who do you suppose pays that other $50 billion Do you suppose a tooth fairy does"
X Link 2025-11-19T21:26Z [----] followers, 136.4K engagements

"The most harm of all is done when power is in the hands of people who are absolutely persuaded of the purity of their instincts and of the purity of their intentions. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-20T14:21Z [----] followers, 12.1K engagements

"Higher taxes will not reduce the deficit except for a brief interval. They will simply increase government spending. That is the lesson taught by past experiences. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-21T00:06Z [----] followers, 38.9K engagements

"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And thats why its so essential to preserving individual freedom. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-21T14:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The word liberal has come to mean almost the opposite of what it used to mean. If you look at behavior today liberal means freedom with other peoples money"
X Link 2025-11-21T18:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The source of tolerance is the recognition that none of us have the absolute truth. There can be no tolerance without humility. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-22T00:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"The true test of any scholars work is not what his contemporaries say but what happens to his work in the next [--] or [--] years.And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work Ive done is still cited in the textbooks long after Im gone. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-22T14:27Z [----] followers, 24.8K engagements

"Inflation is the most destructive disease known to modern societies. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-23T14:24Z [----] followers, 19.1K engagements

"Wherever the free market has been permitted to operate wherever anything approaching equality of opportunity has existed the ordinary man has been able to attain levels of living never dreamed of before. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-23T18:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-23T22:23Z [----] followers, 54.8K engagements

"The programs that are labeled as being for the poor for the needy almost always have effects exactly the opposite of those which their well-intentioned sponsors intend them to have. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-24T17:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"You have everybody screaming that we ought to have new bigger more generous government programs. Where are we going to raise the money Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-24T22:38Z [----] followers, 14K engagements

"The people who go around talking about their soft heart. I admire them for the softness of their heart but unfortunately it very often extends to their head as well. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-26T17:56Z [----] followers, 13.2K engagements

"The most unresolved problem of the day is precisely the problem that concerned the founders of this nation: how to limit the scope and power of government. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-27T14:23Z [----] followers, 11K engagements

"Everybody talks against inflation but what he means is that he wants the prices of the things he sells to go up and the prices of the things he buys to go down. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-28T13:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Left-wing activist throws pie in Milton Friedmans face"
X Link 2025-11-28T17:14Z 22.7K followers, 1.6M engagements

"The incident occurred in October [----] at a San Francisco conference titled School Choice and Corporate America. Friedman reportedly was unfazed and said Well these things happen sometimes"
X Link 2025-11-28T17:39Z [----] followers, 112.5K engagements

"What social responsibility do businesses have"
X Link 2025-11-28T21:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Violence seems justified when you think youre virtuous and those who disagree with you are just evil. As Milton Friedman put it The most harm of all is done when power is in the hands of people who are absolutely persuaded of the purity of their instincts and intentions. Left-wing activist throws pie in Milton Friedmans face https://t.co/YvmULQgJol Left-wing activist throws pie in Milton Friedmans face https://t.co/YvmULQgJol"
X Link 2025-11-30T14:24Z 11.2K followers, 15.6K engagements

"Milton Friedman: Treat your fellow man as a person to be persuaded not coerced not forced not bulldozed not brainwashed"
X Link 2025-11-30T22:17Z [----] followers, 16.9K engagements

"Theres no point in comparing an actual operating system with an ideal system that doesnt exist. Milton Friedman Milton Friedman on the tendency to compare ideal socialism with real-world capitalism https://t.co/F2WoCsZo41 Milton Friedman on the tendency to compare ideal socialism with real-world capitalism https://t.co/F2WoCsZo41"
X Link 2025-12-01T14:21Z [----] followers, 10.5K engagements

"When everybody owns something nobody owns it and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-01T17:54Z [----] followers, 34.2K engagements

"Higher spending means that government will command a larger fraction of the nations resources private individuals a smaller fraction. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-01T22:18Z [----] followers, 28.2K engagements

"Margaret Thatcher: Milton Friedman revived the economics of liberty when it had been all but forgotten. He was an intellectual freedom fighter. Never was there a less dismal practitioner of a dismal science. I shall greatly miss my old friends lucid wisdom and mordant humour"
X Link 2025-12-03T13:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Price control is a device that governments have repeatedly resorted to to try to cover up the effects of their own policies. It is offered as a cure for inflation. It is not a cure for inflation. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-03T16:39Z [----] followers, 15.8K engagements

"Free societies the kind weve been lucky enough to experience for the last [---] [---] years are a very rare exception in human history. Most people at any one time have lived in tyranny and misery. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-04T14:16Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements

"Milton Friedman on the Federal Reserve"
X Link 2025-12-04T17:38Z 10.2K followers, [----] engagements

"What most people really object to when they object to a free market is that it is so hard for them to shape it to their own will. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-04T23:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements

"Once you get some government program in. it becomes a special privilege of a small group which has an enormously strong interest to maintain it. And you do not have any comparable group that has an interest to get rid of it. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-05T18:09Z [----] followers, 64.2K engagements

"In a bureaucratic systemuseless work drives out useful work. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-06T00:19Z [----] followers, 60.9K engagements

"Nobody likes to admit that he has made a mistake and they do not have to. They can argue that the enterprise initially failed only because it was not pursued on a large enough scale. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-06T21:08Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Asking economists for investment advice is like asking a physicist to fix a broken toilet. Not their field though sort of related. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-07T17:15Z 11.2K followers, 23.6K engagements

"I have no right to coerce someone else because I cannot be sure that I am right and he is wrong. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-08T22:18Z 10.9K followers, [----] engagements

"The essential notion of a capitalist society is voluntary cooperation voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-09T15:06Z 11K followers, 57.1K engagements

"Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-10T14:46Z 11.2K followers, 37.6K engagements

"When you start paying people to be poor you wind up with an awful lot of poor people. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-13T00:17Z 16.9K followers, 262.6K engagements

"Nowhere is the gap between rich and poor wider nowhere are the rich richer and the poor poorer than in those societies that do not permit the free market to operate. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-14T16:09Z 16.6K followers, 92.3K engagements

"Spending on education has been skyrocketing yet by common consent the quality of education has been declining. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-14T21:03Z 15.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Ronald Reagan awarding Milton Friedman the Presidential Medal of Freedom in [----] Teacher scholar and theoristMilton Friedman restored common sense to the world of economics. A winner of the Nobel Prize Milton Friedmans technical mastery of his profession is unchallenged. But more central to his work is its moral component: an idea of human freedom in which mans economic rights are as vital as his civil and human rights. It is for his celebration of the human spirit as well as the brilliance of his mind that I bestow upon Milton Friedman the Presidential Medal of Freedom"
X Link 2025-12-16T15:16Z 16.5K followers, 69.4K engagements

"Rand Paul: As Milton Friedman famously explained Inflation is taxation without legislation. Congress cannot control the Feds actions but Fed actions can cost Americans dearly"
X Link 2025-12-17T14:28Z 16.3K followers, [----] engagements

"I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse for any reason whenever its possible. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-19T00:11Z 16.9K followers, 49.1K engagements

"Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-19T21:18Z 16.7K followers, 12.5K engagements

"The key insight of Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-20T14:42Z 16.3K followers, 58.9K engagements

"The great tragedy of the drive to centralization as of the drive to extend the scope of government in general is that it is mostly led by men of goodwill who will be the first to rue its consequences. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-20T18:26Z 16K followers, 10.8K engagements

"We would all like to see government spending go down provided it is not spending that benefits us. We would all like to see deficits reduced provided it is through taxes imposed on others. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-21T18:38Z 17.1K followers, 22.6K engagements

"Milton Friedman: Inflation is made in Washington because only Washington can create money. What produces inflation is too much government spending and too much government creation of money and nothing else"
X Link 2025-12-22T14:16Z 18.7K followers, 50.3K engagements

"Socialist Russia at the time is not different from Nazi Germany. And indeed it was national socialismthats where Nazi comes from. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-23T14:14Z 16.9K followers, 33.2K engagements

"Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction it reduces the area over which political power is exercised. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-23T18:08Z 16.9K followers, 13.8K engagements

"Its so hard for people to get out of the notion that life is a zero-sum game. They think if one man benefits another must lose. But in a free market both people can benefit. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-24T13:18Z 18.3K followers, 59.4K engagements

"In [----] President Nixon reacting to Milton Friedmans criticism of his nationwide wage and price controls told his domestic policy chief: I dont give a good goddamn what Milton Friedman says. Hes not running for re-election"
X Link 2025-12-24T17:33Z 16.5K followers, 14.8K engagements

"The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official a trade union official or a business executive. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-25T15:08Z 17.2K followers, 51.5K engagements

"Thank heaven that we dont get all of the government that we are made to pay for. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-25T20:50Z 16.6K followers, 13K engagements

"Equality of outcome is in clear conflict with liberty. The attempt to promote it has been a major source of bigger and bigger government and of government-imposed restrictions on our liberty. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-26T14:16Z 17.8K followers, 11.3K engagements

"A society which is socialist cannot also be democratic. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-26T22:43Z 17.5K followers, 57K engagements

"Ever since the first settlement of Europeans in the New World America has been a magnet for people seeking adventure fleeing from tyranny or simply trying to make a better life for themselves and their children. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-27T18:23Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements

"There are very few Marxists left in the world. theyre all in American universities. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-28T00:16Z 18.2K followers, 107.1K engagements

"Reporters and TV commentators seem especially resistant to the elementary principles they supposedly imbibed in freshman economics. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-28T18:19Z 17K followers, [----] engagements

"Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us and history confirms that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-29T00:04Z 18.2K followers, 31.2K engagements

"Milton Friedman: The truth is inflation is made in one place and one place onlyhere in Washington. This is a place where the power resides to determine how rapidly the amount of money shall increase"
X Link 2025-12-29T13:53Z 16.6K followers, [--] engagements

"The truth is inflation is made in one place and one place onlyhere in Washington. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-29T14:00Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements

"Raise the wage of airline pilots and air travel will become more expensive. Fewer people will fly and there will be fewer jobs for airline pilots. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-29T17:56Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements

"The gain from the education of a child accrues not only to the child or to his parents but also to other members of the society. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-30T18:07Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements

"The hardest thing in the world is to get rid of any government program however badly it works. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-31T00:04Z 18.3K followers, 126.8K engagements

"However attractive anarchy may be as a philosophy it is not feasible in a world of imperfect men. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-12-31T20:21Z 18.7K followers, 17K engagements

"The great lesson which history teaches is that bad results seldom are produced by men of bad intentions. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-01T14:17Z 18.3K followers, 21.6K engagements

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is that people operating separately through their joint relations with one another through market transactions can achieve a greater degree of efficiency and of output than can a single central planner. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-01T18:16Z 18.4K followers, 26.3K engagements

"Milton Friedman schools a socialist politician 👏 The period of economic freedom was a period in which the differences in income between the rich and the poor were getting smaller. Government is a source of differences in income of special privilege of monopoly"
X Link 2026-01-02T14:15Z 20.7K followers, 98.2K engagements

"Anything government can do private enterprise can do for half the cost. If government spends $6000 per child then I have every confidence that a private competitive enterprise can provide better schooling for $3000 per child. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-03T18:09Z 18.7K followers, 36.2K engagements

"The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-03T22:19Z 18.2K followers, 13.2K engagements

"What we urgently need for both economic stability and growth is a reduction of government intervention not an increase. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-04T16:57Z 18.5K followers, 10.5K engagements

"Milton Friedman: Weve been moving away from a free society and toward an increasing degree of slavery. . a slavery in the form of an increasing role of government in our economy of an increasing extent to which we are the subjects and the government the master"
X Link 2026-01-06T14:12Z 20.7K followers, 26.2K engagements

"It seemed a miracle when West Germanya defeated and devastated countrybecame one of the strongest economies on the continent of Europe in less than a decade. It was the miracle of a free market. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-06T17:53Z 18.6K followers, 11.1K engagements

"Milton Keynes = AOCs favorite economist"
X Link 2026-01-07T13:06Z 20.7K followers, 29.9K engagements

"Life is not fair. It is tempting to believe that government can rectify what nature has spawned. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-08T21:21Z 20.8K followers, 10.3K engagements

"Javier Milei @JMilei receiving the Milton Friedman International Prize in Italy In Argentina Milei has become a beacon for the entire world. He has shown how Milton Friedmans ideas remain relevant. His passion and charisma are an inspiration to us all"
X Link 2026-01-09T14:08Z 21.7K followers, 140.4K engagements

"Government should be a referee not an active player. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-10T00:12Z 20.6K followers, 18.1K engagements

"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"
X Link 2026-01-10T21:52Z 20.6K followers, [----] engagements

"Milton Friedman rebukes a school board member: Why should you be able to tell John and Jane that they have to be proficient in a foreign language . Its just a demonstration of your willingness to replace their judgement by yours"
X Link 2026-01-11T14:21Z 20.9K followers, 44K engagements

"The great achievements of Western capitalism have redounded primarily to the benefit of the ordinary person. These achievements have made available to the masses conveniences and amenities that were previously the exclusive prerogative of the rich and powerful"
X Link 2026-01-11T17:48Z 22.5K followers, [----] engagements

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-11T22:12Z 22.5K followers, 101.9K engagements

"Milton Friedman on abolishing the Federal Reserve: Ive long been in favor of abolishing it. Theres no institution in the United States that has such a high public standing and such a poor record of performance. It has done far more harm than good"
X Link 2026-01-12T13:38Z 19K followers, [--] engagements

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in five years thered be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-12T17:33Z 23K followers, 96.3K engagements

"If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior that somehow society is responsible why should he seek to make his behavior good Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-12T22:16Z 20.9K followers, 23.4K engagements

"Milton Friedman: The great myth that was created by WW2 was the myth that government was efficient. It was a myth because it was one thing for government to plan and control an economy for a single overriding objectiveto win the war. Its a very different thing for government to control the economy for the many numerous tastes of a large number of people in a complex world"
X Link 2026-01-15T14:45Z 22.1K followers, 13.5K engagements

"Why have we had such a decline in moral climate I submit to you that a major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-16T13:43Z 22.9K followers, 11.5K engagements

"Make politics an avocation not a vocation. Milton Friedman We need a two-term limit for all politicians. Full-time career politicians are a curse. We need a two-term limit for all politicians. Full-time career politicians are a curse"
X Link 2026-01-17T13:33Z 21.9K followers, [----] engagements

"Because of the corruption of the term liberalism the views that formerly went under that name are now often labeled conservatism. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-17T16:52Z 22K followers, [----] engagements

"Everyone wants to cut down on government provided that those things he has an interest in are maintained. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-18T17:42Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements

"There is nothing which will destroy a society so thoroughly and so fully as letting inflation run riot. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-18T22:16Z 23K followers, 29.8K engagements

"💯 Milton Friedman was spot on https://t.co/5fndbNzE8N Milton Friedman was spot on https://t.co/5fndbNzE8N"
X Link 2026-01-19T14:29Z 22.9K followers, 30.3K engagements

"Milton Friedman on how welfare programs destroy a society: Welfare programs have an insidious effect on the moral fiber of both the people who administer the programs and the people who are supposedly benefiting from it. For the people who administer it it instills in them a feeling of almost Godlike power. For the people who are supposedly benefiting it instills a feeling of childlike dependence. Their capacity for personal decision-making atrophies. The result is that the programs involved are a misuse of money. They do not achieve the objectives which it was their intention to achieve. But"
X Link 2026-01-19T17:36Z 23K followers, 75.6K engagements

"You can only aim at equality by giving some people the right to take things from others. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-19T22:18Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements

"Milton Friedman: The natural state of mankind is tyranny and misery. Free societies have been very rare. Weve been extraordinarily fortunate in having been born in or having been able to migrate to a relatively free society"
X Link 2026-01-20T15:18Z 23K followers, 39.5K engagements

"Milton Friedman on why so many Western intellectuals favor socialism: We observe and are always asking ourselves the question why it is that in the Western world intellectuals tend to be collectivists. Certainly one reason is that by nature their whole interest is in questioning things including whatever society theyre in. But in a collectivist society they cant speak up because of suppression whereas in a free society they can. So the only intellectuals heard from tend to be collectivists. Source: Reasons [----] interview with Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-21T17:23Z 22.8K followers, 24.3K engagements

"Thank heaven that we dont get all of the government that we are made to pay for. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-21T22:13Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Its always so attractive to be able to do good at somebody elses expense. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-24T17:52Z 23K followers, 20.4K engagements

"The price system transmits only the important information and only to the people who need to know. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-26T22:21Z 23K followers, [----] engagements

"The essential notion of a capitalist society is voluntary cooperation voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2026-01-05T22:18Z 24.7K followers, 69.6K engagements

"Milton Friedman debunks minimum wage law: The consequences of minimum wage rates have been almost wholly badto increase unemployment and to increase poverty. Moreover the effects have been concentrated on the groups that the do-gooders would most like to help"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:02Z 24.7K followers, 13K engagements

"Former Fed chair to Milton Friedman: Regarding the Great Depression youre right. We did it. Were very sorry"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:36Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements

"Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending because thats the true tax. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-09-20T18:25Z 24.7K followers, 122.2K engagements

"Milton Keynes is apparently AOCs favorite economist"
X Link 2025-10-17T17:21Z 24.7K followers, 1.3M engagements

"I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse for any reason whenever its possible. Milton Friedman"
X Link 2025-11-09T20:43Z 24.7K followers, 65.5K engagements

"Milton Friedman on the Federal Reserve: Ive long been in favor of abolishing it. Theres no institution in the US that has such a high public standing and such a poor record of performance. It has done far more harm than good"
X Link 2026-01-12T13:42Z 23.2K followers, 419.6K engagements

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