17 Quotes by Sheldon Richman



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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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