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Quotes from An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy — Milton Friedman

1912–2006 United States

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Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement.

An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966)

There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market.

An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966)

The old saw is that the Quakers went to the New World to do good and ended up doing well. Today, well-meaning reformers go to Washington to do good and end up doing harm.

An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966)

I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books—in its effect, not its intent.

An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966)

A military draft is undesirable and unnecessary. We can and should man our armed forces with volunteers—as the United States has traditionally done except in major wars.

An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966)

We have heard much these past few years of how the government protects the consumer. A far more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966)

The key need in policy-setting is to reverse the growth of government!

An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966)

In a free society, a government has no business using the power of the law or the taxpayer's money to propagandize for some views and to prevent the transmission of others.

An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966)

The elementary fact is that ‘business’ does not and cannot pay taxes. Only people can pay taxes. Corporate officials may sign the check, but the money that they forward to Internal Revenue comes from the corporation’s employees, customers, or stockholders.

An Economist's Protest: Columns in Political Economy (1966)

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