What it means to be a liberal

There are very few Americans who know what it honestly means to be a liberal like Milton Friedman.



Whether we want to acknowledge the importance of our freedom or not, Friedman's ideas improved the lives of a substantial proportion of the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. The great irony of this century is that, in our cowardice, we decided to turn back the clock on the single most important contribution to our progress for the last two centuries: our liberty.

And Dr. Friedman was an unapologetic supporter of that progress and the idea that made it possible. And that, whether we want to get honest about it or not, is what it means to be a liberal. To be committed to liberty as the best means of enabling our progress.

We take all that freedom for granted because we have so much available, today. And people like Milton Friedman made that possible.

Thanks, Milton. Thanks for genuinely believing in our liberal values. And for believing in us.