Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.