Quotes About Regulation

Government planning always involves compulsion.

We're against the state, not government. The state just happens to monopolize the government.

Bureaucracy is like a fungus that contaminates everything.

Either you believe in markets, or you believe in government.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

If Wall Street paid a tax on every "game" they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

Government is essentially the negation of liberty.

Freedom for the government is enslavement for the people. When the government is free the people are enslaved. When the government is contained then the people are free.

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Those policies - more taxes, more regulation, more debt, more spending, more government - will make American worse. It just will, in my view.

No bank should be allowed to become so big that it can blackmail governments.

The not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad because they cannot allow the self.

Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

Governments institutionalize something for nothing.

Government does not create jobs. Government does not create jobs.

As restrictions and prohibitions are multiplied the people grow poorer and poorer. When they are subjected to overmuch government, the land is thrown into confusion.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

You can have economic freedom without political freedom, but you cannot have political freedom without economic freedom.

The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.