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> [Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/advocacy-groups-politicians-and-bureaucrats-use-the-government-to/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

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> [Today, the law is a crazy quilt of provisions and clauses that very often have little to do with securing general happiness but instead are designed to secure the particular happiness of various advocacy groups, politicians and bureaucrats.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/today-the-law-is-a-crazy-quilt-of-provisions-and-clauses-that-very/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

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## More by Joel Miller

> [Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/advocacy-groups-politicians-and-bureaucrats-use-the-government-to/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/money-spent-in-complying-with-a-regulation-cannot-be-spent-again-on/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/every-day-big-government-heaps-demands-and-restrictions-upon/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/laws-do-not-curb-the-lawless-after-all-that-s-why-we-call-them-lawless/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/what-we-have-to-remember-is-that-not-everything-is-under-our-control/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/markets-respond-not-to-political-pressures-channeled-through-various/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/bureaucracies-typically-move-slowly-clumsily-and-without-much-regard/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [Markets are nimble and efficient, gathering the collective but disbursed intelligence of the economy's players and communicating up-to-the-minute realities of prices, product availability, etc.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/markets-are-nimble-and-efficient-gathering-the-collective-but/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [As government increases in quantity, our lives decrease in quality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/as-government-increases-in-quantity-our-lives-decrease-in-quality/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/instead-of-doing-more-badly-government-should-focus-on-doing-less-well/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/think-about-the-difference-between-how-your-local-gas-station-and/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/the-only-way-to-effectively-secure-the-common-good-is-for-the/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [With its brutal excesses and reliance on snitches and finks as informants, I don't think it's far off-kilter to describe the modern-day drug war…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/with-its-brutal-excesses-and-reliance-on-snitches-and-finks-as/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [The government doesn't create wealth of its own; it can only take it from some and distribute it to others or dictate particular public…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/the-government-doesn-t-create-wealth-of-its-own-it-can-only-take-it/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

> [To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-miller/to-best-serve-the-public-happiness-government-shouldn-t-do-things-it/)

[Joel Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-miller/)

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