If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don't be surprised if you get unemployment. (ang.)
Milton Friedman słynne cytaty
„Nigdy nie spotkałem się z cięciem podatkowym, które by mi się nie podobało.”
I never met a tax cut I didn't like. (ang.)
Źródło: Richard A. Viguerie, Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause, 2006, str. 46
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programmes by their intentions rather than their results. (ang.)
Źródło: Czerkawski B., Wolny prywatny rynek, [w:] „Najwyższy Czas!” nr 28, Warszawa 1990, s. I.
Milton Friedman Cytaty o wolności
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both. (ang.)
Źródło: Friedman M., Friedman R., Two Lucky People: Memoirs, Chicago 1999, s. 514.
Milton Friedman cytaty
„Rządowe rozwiązanie problemów są zwykle równie złe jak sam problem.”
The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem. (ang.)
„Nie istnieje coś takiego jak darmowe obiady.”
There's no such thing as a free lunch. (ang.)
być może spotykane wcześniej.
„Inflacja jest tą formą podatku, którą można nałożyć bez ustawy.”
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. (ang.)
I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible. (...) Because I believe the big problem is not taxes, the big problem is spending. I believe that government is too large and intrusive, that we do not get our money's worth for the roughly 40 percent of our income that is spent by government.... How can we ever cut government down to size? I believe there is one and only one way: the way parents control spendthrift children, cutting their allowance. For government, that means cutting taxes. (ang.)
Źródło: Richard A. Viguerie, Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause, 2006, str. 46
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. (ang.)
„Rządy nie uczą się niczego. Tylko ludzie się uczą.”
Governments never learn. Only people learn. (ang.)
Źródło: The Cynic's Lexicon: A Dictionary Of Amoral Advice (1984), Jonathon Green, str. 77
„Urna wyborcza tworzy zgodność bez jednomyślności zaś rynek jednomyślność bez zgodności”
Źródło: Wolny wybór, 1996 r.
Milton Friedman: Cytaty po angielsku
“Governments never learn. Only people learn.”
Statement made in 1980, as quoted in The Cynic's Lexicon : A Dictionary Of Amoral Advice (1984), by Jonathon Green, p. 77
One role of prohibition is in making the drug market more lucrative.
America's Drug Forum interview (1991)
Źródło: (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 15
“Society doesn't have values. People have values.”
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.
Źródło: (1962), Ch. 3 The Control of Money, p. 50
Źródło: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", page 13
Kontekst: 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.
As quoted in If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? (2009) by John Mitchinson, p. 87
"Milton Friedman" in William Breit and Roger W. Spencer (ed.) Lives of the laureates
Lecture "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community" (1983); cited in Filters Against Folly (1985) by Garrett Hardin ISBN 067080410X
“The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power.”
Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg
Źródło: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money
Źródło: 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.”
Źródło: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money
Źródło: (1962), Ch. 13 Conclusion, 2002 edition, p. 198
Źródło: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", p. 14
Źródło: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money
Introduction
Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
Kontekst: 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.
Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg
"The Methodology of Positive Economics" (1953)
Źródło: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 13 Conclusion
Interview with Richard Heffner on The Open Mind (7 December 1975)
Źródło: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 6 The Role of Government in Education, p. 95
As quoted in The Money Masters (1995)
“You must distinguish sharply between being pro free enterprise and being pro business.”
Milton Friedman - Big Business, Big Government http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_T0WF-uCWg