Quotes from Joel Miller

Advocacy groups, politicians, and bureaucrats use the government to advance their private good instead of the common good.

The more government does, the greater chance that its efforts will be tilted toward a particular group's good, instead of the common good.

The only way to effectively secure the common good is for the government to remain small.

Instead of doing more badly, government should focus on doing less well.

To best serve the public happiness, government shouldn't do things it cannot do well - anymore than Wal-Mart should provide goods and services that people don't like.

What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.

I took another draught and my mouth was awash again in a riptide of bitter, bubbly, CO2 eruptions and the fruity splash of malted barley. What a sensation! I wasn't sure if I liked it at first, but by bottle's end I was a dedicated fan.

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.