Milton Friedman Quotes:
Date of Birth: July 31, 1912- Date of Death: November 16, 2006

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• If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
  
  
• There's no such thing as a free lunch.
  
  
• Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
  
  
• Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
  
  
• The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
  
  
• The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
  
  
• The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.
  
  
• Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
  
  

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