Sheldon Richman Quotes
Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'
Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their money for, he becomes wealthy.
The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.
No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.
We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.
The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.
It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.
Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.
The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.
Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.
The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.
In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions.
By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.
If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.