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One thing we know from centuries of history is that if the government has revenue to spend, it will spend it.

— David R. Henderson The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002)

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The government’s monopoly is what has allowed it to produce so bad a product for so long.

The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002)

The history of economic growth is the history of people making more with less and shifting into new jobs that were unheard of in the previous generation.

Unfortunately, not content to enforce its monopoly power over what new drugs get produced, the FDA also seeks to limit doctor’s uses of legal drugs for uses not specified on the label.

The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002)

British author Thomas Carlyle called economics ‘the dismal science’ because the free-market economists around him were strongly opposed to slavery.

The Joy of Freedom: An Economist’s Odyssey (2002)

Our oil supply is secure, not because our government threatens to use force against those who would make it insecure, but because the world’s oil suppliers want to make money.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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