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The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.

— Milton Friedman

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With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

One reason why money is a mystery to so many is the role of myth or fiction or convention.

Money Mischief (1992)

The basic problem of social organization is how to co-ordinate the economic activities of large numbers of people.

Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them.

Capitalism and Freedom (1962)

Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.

The Counter-Revolution in Monetary Theory (1970)

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