It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
Government is an inherently inflationary institution and will ever remain so until it is dispossessed of its monopoly of the supply of money.
It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.
Look, we understood we couldn't make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue for the Nixon White House that we couldn't resist it.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.
If congress refuses to obey its own rules. If congress refuses to pass a balanced budget. If congress refuses to read the Bills. Then I say, sweep the place clean, limit their terms, and send them HOME!
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply the instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument indeed.
The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny
... often analysis seems to be based on the assumption that future economic output is almost entirely determined by inexorable economic forces independently of government policy so that devoting more resources to one use inevitably detracts from availability for another.
When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.
Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right to defend ourselves against predators. Since we possess that right, we can delegate authority to government to defend us. By contrast, we don't have a natural right to take the property of one person to give to another; therefore, we cannot legitimately delegate such authority to government.
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.
A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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