Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. - Milton Friedman

"Who Protects the Consumer? "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chuses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens." — Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, vol. I, [>]"

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

The fundamental threat to freedom is power to coerce, be it in the hands of a monarch, a dictator, an oligarchy, or a momentary majority.