“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”
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Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
