Benefits Quote by Ayn Rand

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government…

— Ludwig von Mises

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and…

— Grover Cleveland

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and…

— Grover Cleveland

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

— John Stuart Mill

It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. Government is in the last…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Everyone who experiences this weight of governmental interference and regulation knows how little any of it has to do with its ostensible justification. A…

— Theodore Dalrymple

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of…

— Thomas Jefferson

I think almost every economist would agree that government gets itself in trouble when it tries to interfere with voluntary behavior.

— Milton Friedman

“The greed of a single person must never be allowed to subvert the function of government so that one person’s profit can be achieved…

— Rocco Leonard Martino

As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse…

— John Stossel

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

— Sheldon Richman

The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferred by that power.

— Sheldon Richman