17 Quotes by Sheldon Richman

The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and to command obedience on pain of imprisonment even of those who never consented to the preposterous arrangement.

The government’s coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

The truly free market is the worker’s best friend.

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

In an unmolested market economy – one where all dealings are consensual – the ‘allocation’ of wealth and income is the result of transactions.