The nineteenth-century liberal regarded an extension of freedom as the most effective way to promote welfare and equality; the twentieth-century libe… - Milton Friedman

President Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”… Neither half of that statement expresses a relation between the citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals of free men in a free society. “What your country can do for you” implies that the government is the patron, the citizen the ward. “What you can do for your country” assumes that the government is the master, the citizen the servant.

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

You can rigidly enforce only those laws that most people believe to be good laws, that is, laws that proscribe actions that they would avoid even in the absence of laws.