Quotes from Sheldon Richman

Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives.

The alternative to the market process is government control, and we know where that principle leads.

Some conservatives are surprised to find people on the Left supporting the war in Afghanistan. It's not surprising at all…It is hard for the government to prosecute a war and not expand…Conservatives may think they can support war and oppose the expansion of the state, but that is like trying to square the circle. What makes them think they can contain the expansion?

If government played by the same rules as the rest of us, it would cease to be government.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains.

If people give up their attachment to expansive government, they will feel free to fight the income tax.

The ongoing falsification of history has greater objectives than erasing the Palestinian people and their collective claim to human rights and dignity. It also aims at normalizing Israeli military occupation, apartheid, and colonialism. It provides a historical amnesty for all the crimes that Israel has committed and will continue to commit.

His Orthodox belief held that the re-establishment of Israel was a matter for God in the messianic future. He would have agreed with Yehoshofat Harkabi, a former chief of Israeli military intelligence, who said "The Jews always considered that the land belonged to them, but in fact it belonged to the Arabs. I would go further: I would say the original source of this conflict lies with Israel.

Since my libertarianism puts me on the side of the victims of the state, I began to understand that the Palestinians were the latest in a long line of groups oppressed by political power. Jews, of course, have been similarly oppressed in many places; now some Jews, the Zionists, were in the role of oppressor. My childhood view of Israel was unraveling.

Anyone who protested the callous treatment of the Arabs and others was dismissed or ignored as naïve.

An open and (semi-) free society cannot realistically expect to eliminate the risk of indiscriminate violence. The cost in liberty and dignity would be way too high — and the attempt would fail. Moreover, the risk of violence perpetrated by our guardians would not be eliminated but augmented.

By portraying war as an opportunity for virtuous acts, the politicians romanticize evil.

We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'