17 Quotes by Sheldon Richman
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If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.
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By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.
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If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax.
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No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.
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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.
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Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities.
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Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to ‘do something.’
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The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.
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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.
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