Quotes About Regulation

Government cripples you, then hands you a crutch and says, 'See, if it wasn't for us, you couldn't walk.'

Liberty is always freedom from the government.

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

Freedom requires that government keep the channels of competition and opportunity open, prevent monopolies, economic abuse and domination.

Let's ask why it is that we pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, and your medicine can be doubled tomorrow, and there's nothing that the government can do to stop it.

The bigger the government, the greater the corruption

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

Government has a legitimate sphere of operation. The problem arises when that sphere continually expands, encompassing areas where government lacks legitimacy.

Freedom is the default position. Everything the government does takes away some of our freedom... That's why we have a constitution, to restrain the government.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

Almost every great innovation was [created] by government.

The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions.

Freedom is living without government coercion. So when a politician talks about freedom for this group or that, ask yourself whether he is advocating more government action or less.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.

The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power.

Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.

All government is an ugly necessity.