We want the kind of world in which greedy people can do the least harm to their fellow men. That’s the kind of world in which power is widely dispers… - Milton Friedman

Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or central direction, it reduces the area over which political power is exercised. In addition, by dispersing power, the free market provides an offset to whatever concentration of political power may arise.

The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both.

The great tragedy of the drive to centralization, as of the drive to extend the scope of government in general, is that it is mostly led by men of goodwill who will be the first to rue its consequences