1172: Milton Friedman – Lack of Belief in Freedom Itself

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. —Milton FriedmanDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 4.29MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 187KB
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. —Milton FriedmanDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 5.62MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 232KB

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

1154: Ayn Rand – When the Law No Longer Protects You

When the Law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed. —Ayn RandDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 5.20MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 174KB
When the Law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed. —Ayn RandDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 7.29MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 210KB

When the Law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you, you know your nation is doomed. —Ayn Rand

1118: Antony Davies – Civil Asset Forfeiture & Criminals

More Americans lose their property to police in the form of Civil Asset Forfeiture than they do to criminals. — Antony Davies (Cooperation & Coercion)Download Print Quality (3840×2010) 4.64MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 217KB
More Americans lose their property to police in the form of Civil Asset Forfeiture than they do to criminals. — Antony Davies (Cooperation & Coercion)Download Print Quality (3840×2744) 6.57MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 297KB
More Americans lose their property to police in the form of Civil Asset Forfeiture than they do to criminals. — Antony Davies (Cooperation & Coercion)

1084: Thomas Sowell – If the Average Citizen Understood Economics

If the average citizen understood the basics of economics that was understood 200 years ago, most of the nonsense that is done in Washington would be impossible today. —Thomas Sowell

1075: Ayn Rand – Statists and Control

One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary. —Ayn Rand

1026: Henry Hazlitt – Government Spending Destroys Jobs

For every dollar that the government spends on public works one less dollar was spent by the taxpayers to meet their own wants and for every public job created one private job was destroyed. —Henry Hazlitt

1022: Larry Sharpe – Laws Are Not the Answer

Laws are not the answer. More laws are not going to help. You don’t have to have a law for everything. —Larry Sharpe

1017: Murray Rothbard – Forcing Man to Act Morally is Not Virtuous

By forcing man to act morally — in reality would deprive man of the very possibility of being moral. For no action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen. —Murray Rothbard

1016: Henry Hazlitt – Minimum Wage Deprives Men of Work

You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. —Henry Hazlitt

1010: Milton Friedman – Source of Inequality

The greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government. —Milton Friedman