Milton Friedman Government Quotes

What did Milton Friedman say about Government?

Milton Friedman has written many quotes about Government. E.g.,

• The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
• Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.

What are the top most famous Government quotes by Milton Friedman?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Government by Milton Friedman.

• The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
• Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
• So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
• The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
• Governments never learn. Only people learn.
• If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
• Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
• The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
• The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.
• Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.