Sheldon Richman Quotes

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• No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.
• Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically,…
• The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society no one should…
• The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.
• We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.
• The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy…
• Some conservatives are surprised to find people on the Left supporting the war in Afghanistan. It's not surprising at all...It is hard for the government…
• Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

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