The
Free Market and its Enemies
A book of
Quotes assembled by James R. Cook Page
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“Big Government distracts us the most important job of the government
– protecting us” Michael D. Tanner
“Liberty in the United State will never be reestablished so
long as elites and masses alike look to the president to perform supernatural
feats and therefore tolerate a virtual unlimited exercise of presidential
power. Until we can restore limited, constitutional
government in this country, God save us from great presidents.” Robert Higgs
“The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines
individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways
discourages capital accumulation and distorts, unbalances, and shrinks
production.” Henry Hazlitt
“The more power government has to provide things, the more
power it has to dictate terms.” Sheldon Richman
“In a market, goods and services are exchanged through a myriad
complex of voluntary transactions, each made to the mutual benefit of those
engaging in the transaction. The costs
of bad choices are borne by those who make them.” Jeffrey A. Singer
“Democracy is a good that people can enjoy without
trouble. It is, on the contrary, a
treasure that must be daily defended and conquered anew by strenuous effort.” Ludwig Von Mises
“Government provided for free tuition tends more and more to
produce a uniform conformist education, with collage faculties ultimately dependant
for their jobs on the government, and so developing an economic interest in
profession and teaching a statist, pro-government and socialist ideology.”
Henry Hazlitt
“When government assumes more and more responsibility for
our lives, less and less reason exists for us to be virtuous. We are, in effect, protected from the
consequences of nonvirtuous behavior.
The results are readily apparent.
As government has grown, our society has become less likely to work and save,
more intemperate and less concerned with the consequences of our actions, less
self-reliant, and even less compassionate towards others.” Michael D. Tanner
“People
who never seem to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.” James
Cook