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
“I have no right to coerce someone else, because I cannot be sure that I'm right and he is wrong.”
"Say 'No' to Intolerance", Liberty magazine, vol. 4, no. 6, (July 1991) pp. 17-20.
Lecture "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community" (1983); cited in Filters Against Folly (1985) by Garrett Hardin
"An Open Letter to Bill Bennett" in The Wall Street Journal (7 September 1989)
Interview "Milton Friedman Responds" in Chemtech (February 1974) p. 72.
Źródło: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", p. 14
Article "We Have Socialism, Q.E.D." http://www.sangam.org/taraki/articles/2006/11-25_Friedman_MGR.php?uid=2075 in The New York Times (31 December 1989)
Interview with Parker in Randall E. Parker(ed.), Reflection on the Great Depression (2002)
“There's no such thing as a free lunch.”
Also often misattributed to Robert A. Heinlein because both helped popularize the expression – Friedman with a book with that title. The phrase actually dates to at least the 1930s.
Misattributed
“The price system transmits only the important information and only to the people who need to know.”
Źródło: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 "The Power of the Market", 15
Źródło: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 12 The Alleviation of Poverty
Źródło: Money Mischief (1992), Ch. 2 The Mystery of Money
Źródło: (1962), Ch. 2 The Role of Government in a Free Society, p. 25
As quoted in Opinion Journal (22 July 2006) http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008690
Interview with Brian Lamb, In Depth Book TV (2000)
As quoted in "Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: A Symposium" https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/capitalism-socialism-and-democracy/ (1 April 1978), edited by William Barrett, Commentary
from an interview with Phil Donahue (1979): partial transcript http://www.slobodaiprosperitet.tv/en/node/847 from SiP TV ; or find link to full interview in the External links Section
Źródło: Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, p. 12
“If a tax cut increases government revenues, you haven't cut taxes enough.”
As quoted in "Milton Friedman's Last Lunch" at Forbes.com (11 December 2006)
“Corruption is government intrusion into market efficiencies in the form of regulations.”
Frequently misattributed to Milton Friedman based on a monologue from the 2005 movie Syriana
Misattributed
“To paraphrase Clemenceau, money is much too serious a matter to be left to the Central Bankers.”
Źródło: (1962), Ch. 3 The Control of Money, p. 50-51
Źródło: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 10 “The Tide Is Turning”, p. 314
Źródło: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 8 "Who Protects the Workers?", p. 246
Źródło: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 6 “What’s Wrong with Our Schools”, p. 170
Źródło: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 2 “The Tyranny of Controls”, pp. 40-41
Źródło: Free to Choose (1980), Ch. 1 “The Power of the Market”, p. 24
“The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.”
“Introduction”, p. 3
Free to Choose (1980)
“Interview with Milton Friedman”, Playboy magazine (Feb. 1973)