Milton Friedman

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

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.

So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free-enterprise system.

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