Quotes of the Week

Everything government touches turns to crap.
– Ringo Starr

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we would soon want bread.
– Thomas Jefferson

Private enterprise creates; government destroys. That is the great economic lesson of our times and all times.
– Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

If you feel driven to feed the poor, get your checkbook out and keep your tyrannical mouth shut about it.
– Lew Goldberg

The standard of living of the common man is highest in countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.
– Ludwig von Mises

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
– Harry Browne

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
– Thomas Sowell

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
– Milton Friedman

Government, in its last analysis, is organized force.
– Woodrow Wilson

If men are good, you don't need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don't dare have one.
– Robert LeFevre