Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Money spent in complying with a regulation cannot be spent again on marketing or product research. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Laws do not curb the lawless. After all, that's why we call them 'lawless.' — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up… — Joel Miller Copy Share
Markets respond not to political pressures channeled through various committees, subcommittees, lobbies, and special interests but to the immediacies and exigencies of the economy… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies typically move slowly, clumsily, and without much regard for the wants and needs of the people they supposedly serve. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
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.… — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
Think about the difference between how your local gas station and congressman respond to a spike in oil prices. One has the price placard outside changed to reflect the reality of the market within hours. The other sends out a press release, tries to organize a hearing, and at the end of amount accomplishes nothing. Meanwhile, the gas station has… — Joel Miller Copy Share
The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small. — Joel Miller Copy Share Image
