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Milton Friedman — Portrait after a picture by Bachrach Studios (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Milton Friedman

American economist and statistician

1912–2006

14 quotes, most often on Government, Economics and Freedom.

If you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
America’s Drug Forum interview (1991)
- Economics
- Government
In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, “Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.”
“Bureaucracy Scorned” in Newsweek (29 December 1975), later published in Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist’s Protest (1983)
- Comedy
- Government
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)
- Government
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in On Liberty. The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual.
America’s Drug Forum interview (1991)
- Government
It’s a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people, who may be doing something you and I don’t approve of, but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.
America’s Drug Forum interview (1991)
- Government
- Morality
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.
Interview with Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (7 December 1975)
- Government
- Politics

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