Quotes About Regulation

I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s.

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable

If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

The power of the State must be invoked for restoring economic freedom just as it has been invoked for destroying economic freedom.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

Freedom of expression is not absolute. Countries have laws that define the framework for exercising this right and which, for instance, condemn racist language.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

The government continues to erode our freedom.

The state is not competent in artistic matters... When the state leaves us free, it will have carried out its duty.

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech.

This country (United States) has too many freedoms.

The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

Freedom works, and government, when it grows beyond the barest minimum, keeps people poor.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

Freedom is the silence of the law.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

I'm not a big fan of regulation: anyone who likes freedom of the press can't be.

To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.

Our economic freedom is founded on individual property rights government should never be permitted to take those away.

There ought to be a law about you coming around.

It would be a service to mankind if the pill were available in slot machines and the cigarette were placed on prescription.