"History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition."
― Milton Friedman
Topic(s):
War
More From Milton Friedman
- "Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."
- "The power to do good is also the power to do harm."
- "The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."
More In War
- "The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war."― William Tecumseh Sherman
- "When war comes, two things happen – profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them."― Steven Spielberg
- "The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel’s existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state."― John Podhoretz