"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Goal Is Freedom: Humility or Hubris?
Submitted by Derek Henson on Fri, 2008-11-07 17:00
?If government, which, recall, is force not eloquence, intervenes -- to raise or lower costs, to increase or reduce rewards, to tamper with prices or interest rates -- we will modify our behavior, knocking self-interest and the general welfare out of alignment.?
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