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“L'existence d'un marché libre n'élimine évidemment pas le besoin de gouvernement. Au contraire, le gouvernement est essentiel, à la fois comme forum pour déterminer les « règles du jeu » et comme arbitre pour interpréter et faire respecter les règles qui ont été adoptées.”

Milton Friedman livre Capitalisme et liberté

The existence of a free market does not of course eliminate the need for government. On the contrary, government is essential both as a forum for determining the "rule of the game" and as an umpire to interpret and enforce the rules decided on.
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Capitalisme et liberté, 1962

“Le fond du problème posé par la plupart des critiques de la publicité n'est pas le fait que la publicité manipule les goûts mais le fait que le grand public a des goûts détestables — c'est-à-dire différents des goûts des critiques.”

Milton Friedman

La Liberté du choix, 1980

“L'inflation est une maladie dangereuse et parfois fatale”

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La Liberté du choix, 1980

“La concurrence du marché, quand on la laisse fonctionner, protège le consommateur mieux que tous les mécanismes gouvernementaux venus successivement se superposer au marché”

Milton Friedman

La Liberté du choix, 1980

“La Réserve Féderale a sans aucun doute causé la Grande Dépression en contractant le volume de l'argent en circulation d'un tiers entre 1929 et 1933.”

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The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of money in circulation by one-third from 1929 to 1933
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Émissions, Interview radio

“Une des plus grandes erreurs est de juger une politique sur ses intentions et non sur ses résultats.”

Milton Friedman

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results
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Émissions, The Open Mind

“Les grandes avancées de la civilisation, que ce soit dans l'architecture ou dans la peinture, la science ou la littérature, l'industrie ou l'agriculture, ne sont jamais nées de l'intervention d'un gouvernement centralisé.”

Milton Friedman livre Capitalisme et liberté

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or in literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
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Capitalisme et liberté, 1962

“Aucune raison ne peut justifier les monopoles d'État sur la poste et l'interdiction faite à n'importe qui d'autre de porter le courrier.”

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Citations sur la liberté de Milton Friedman

“L'histoire suggère uniquement que le capitalisme est une condition nécessaire à la liberté politique. Clairement ce n'est pas une condition suffisante.”

Milton Friedman livre Capitalisme et liberté

History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
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Capitalisme et liberté, 1962

“Une société qui met l'égalité au dessus de la liberté n'aura ni l'un, ni l'autre. Une société qui met la liberté au dessus de l'égalité aura beaucoup des deux.”

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A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both
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Émissions, Free to choose (émission télévisée)

“Une société qui place l'égalité avant la liberté finira par n'avoir ni égalité ni liberté. [.. ] Une société qui place la liberté avant toutes choses finira par obtenir, sans l'avoir cherché, davantage d'égalité en même temps que davantage de liberté”

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La Liberté du choix, 1980

“Il existe une contradiction fondamentale entre l’idéal des « parts équitables » (ou l'idéal dont il dérive : « A chacun selon ses besoins ») et l’idéal de la liberté personnelle. Et cette contradiction a été la plaie de toute tentative de placer l'égalité des résultats comme principe de base de l'organisation sociale. Cela a abouti invariablement à un état de terreur : la Russieur, la Chine et plus récemment le Cambodge en offrent des preuves évidentes et convaincantes”

Milton Friedman

La Liberté du choix, 1980

“La crainte des contrôles fiscaux, l'étouffement bureaucratique et le harcèlement de l'État constituent des armes puissantes contre la liberté de parole.”

Milton Friedman

La Liberté du choix, 1980

Milton Friedman: Citations en anglais

“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”

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Statement made in 1980, as quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary Of Amoral Advice‎ (1984), by Jonathon Green, p. 77

“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.”

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One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
America's Drug Forum interview (1991)

“A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it … gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

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Source: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 15

“Society doesn't have values. People have values.”

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From Created Equal, an episode of the PBS Free to Choose television series (1980, vol. 5 transcript) http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/broadcasts/freetochoose/detail_ftc1980_transcript.php?page=5.

“Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.”

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“The Great Depression in the United States, far from being a sign of the inherent instability of the private enterprise system, is a testament to how much harm can be done by mistakes on the part of a few men when they wield vast power over the monetary system of a country.”

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Source: (1962), Ch. 3 The Control of Money, p. 50

“Education spending will be most effective if it relies on parental choice & private initiative -- the building blocks of success throughout our society.”

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“He moves fastest who moves alone.”

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“Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.”

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Milton Friedman livre Free to Choose

Source: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", page 13
Contexte: The key insight of Adam Smith's 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. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

“We do not influence the course of events by persuading people that we are right when we make what they regard as radical proposals. Rather, we exert influence by keeping options available when something has to be done at a time of crisis.”

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“I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.”

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As quoted in ‪If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? (2009) ‬by John Mitchinson, p. 87

“The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.”

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Financial Times [UK] (7 June 2003)

“So far, twenty-two people have received the Nobel award in economics. Not one of them has been female—so, to judge only from the past, the most important thing to do if you want to be a Nobel laureate is to be male. I hasten to add that the absence of females is not, I believe, attributable to male chauvinist bias on the part of the Swedish Nobel Committee. I believe that the economics profession as a whole would have been nearly unanimous that, during the period in question, only one female candidate met the relevant standards—the English economist Joan Robinson, who has since died. The failure of the Nobel Committee to award her a prize may well have reflected bias but not sex bias. The economists here will understand what I am talking about. … A second requirement is to be a U. S. citizen. Twelve of the twenty-two recipients of the Nobel Prize were from the United States, four from the United Kingdom, two from Sweden, and one each from four other countries. … Of the twelve Americans who have won the Nobel Prize in economics, nine either studied or taught at the University of Chicago. So the next lesson is to go to the University of Chicago.”

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"Milton Friedman" in William Breit and Roger W. Spencer (ed.) Lives of the laureates

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

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Lecture "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community" (1983); cited in Filters Against Folly (1985) by Garrett Hardin ISBN 067080410X

“Industrial progress, mechanical improvement, all of the great wonders of the modern era have meant little to the wealthy. The rich in ancient Greece would have benefited hardly at all from modern plumbing — running servants replaced running water. Television and radio — the patricians of Rome could enjoy the leading musicians and actors in their home, could have the leading artists as domestic retainers. Ready-to-wear clothing, supermarkets — all these and many other modern developments would have added little to their life. They would have welcomed the improvements in transportation and in medicine, but for the rest, the great achievements of western capitalism have rebounded 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.”

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Milton Friedman livre Free to Choose

Source: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 5 “Created Equal”, p. 147

“The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power.”

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Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg

“The term money has two very different meanings in popular discourse. We often speak of someone "making money," when we really mean that he or she is receiving an income. We do not mean that he or she has a printing press in the basement churning out greenbacked pieces of paper. In this use, money is a synonym for income or receipts; it refers to a flow, to income or receipts per week or per year. We also speak of someone's having money in his or her pocket or in a safe-deposit box or on deposit at a bank. In that use, money refers to an asset, a component of one's total wealth. Put differently, the first use refers to an item on a profit-and-loss statement, the second to an item on a balance sheet”

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Source: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money

“Analysis of the supply of money, and in particular of changes in the supply of money, is simple in principle but extremely complex in practice, both in our hypothetical world and in the current real world. Simple in principle, because the supply of money is whatever the monetary authorities make if, complex in practice, because the decisions of the monetary authorities depend on numerous factors.”

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Source: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money

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

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Source: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money

“An income tax intended to reduce inequality and promote the diffusion of wealth has in practice fostered reinvestment of corporate earnings, thereby favoring the growth of large corporations, inhibiting the operation of the capital market, and discouraging the establishment of new enterprises.”

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Source: (1962), Ch. 13 Conclusion, 2002 edition, p. 198

“The price system 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.”

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Milton Friedman livre Free to Choose

Source: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", p. 14

“Why should they also be accepted by private persons in private transactions in exchange for goods and services?
The short answer—and the right answer—is that private persons accept these pieces of paper because they are confident that others will. The pieces of green paper have value because everybody thinks they have value. Everybody thinks they have value because in everybody's experience they have had value…”

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Source: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money

“Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.”

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Milton Friedman livre Capitalisme et liberté

Introduction
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
Contexte: The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather "What can I and my compatriots do through government" to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom? And he will accompany this question with another: How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? 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. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.