Quote from Milton Friedman 

"If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention. This is an important reason why many earlier liberals, like Henry Simons, writing at a time when government was small by today’s standards, were willing to have government undertake activities that today’s liberals would not accept now that government has become so overgrown."

Quote by:
Milton Friedman
(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system"
Source:
Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), p. 32.
 
Bookmark and Share  

 
Get a Quote-A-Day!
Liberty Quotes sent to your mail box.
Email:
 

More Quotations

Quotes & Quotations - Send This Quote to a Friend

© 1998-2005 Liberty-Tree.ca