17 Quotes by Sheldon Richman

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

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.

Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to ‘do something.’

The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

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.