Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else. |
When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy living: Never let the people with all the money and the people with all the guns be the same people. |
When buying and selling are controlled by
legislation, the first things to be bought and sold
are legislators. |
There’s a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any over-large concentration of like-minded individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause. |
Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else. |
Whatever it is the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. |
The term consumerism has been current since the middle 1960s, about the same length of time as the Department of Transportation itself. Literally interpreted, the word means 'an ideology based on the opposite of being productive.' This ideology has caused enormous changes in the American economy. At one time complaining was a cottage industry. The typical maker of complaints gave them to (or traded them with) friends and family members. Sometimes the complaints were sent to newspapers or included in prayers. Friends, family, the press and God then ignored the complaints. In the sixties, however, various consumer advocates began to help complainers find a market for their wares. There is only one organization that is required to take everyone -- and their complaints -- seriously. So the government became the foremost grumble customer. And it is, of course, the government's bureaucratic agencies who have to do the buying. |
Giving money and power to government is like
giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. |
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. |
The main reason to be opposed to political control of smoking is to keep power --even the smallest and silliest kind of power -- out of the hands of ... members of a dangerous class --the class that knows what´s good for us better than we do. |
If you are young
and you drink a great deal
it will spoil your health,
slow your mind,
make you fat --
in other words,
turn you into an adult. |
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. |
There is only one basic human right,
the right to do as you damn well please.
And with it comes the only basic human duty,
the duty to take the consequences. |
The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 -- to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed. And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell. |
If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert, and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography. |
A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense. |
Whatever it is that government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. |
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things bought and sold are legislators. |
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them. |
The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks. ... Government is not a machine with parts; it's an organism. When does an intestine quit being an intestine and start becoming an asshole? |
