“Well, who is more likely to volunteer to take a job in a bureaucracy that has little to recommend it except that it gives you the power to use government force to control the lives of others? A dispassionate scientist or a zealot? In government, the zealots eventually take over.” GivingWellsLittlesUseGovernmentJobsForceScientistVolunteerBureaucracyLives Of OthersZealotDispassionate Author:John Stossel
“If individuals can take from a common pot regardless of how much they put in it, each person has an incentive to be a free rider, to do as little as possible and take as much as possible because what one fails to take will be taken by someone else.” IfsLittlesPersonsIndividualCommonTakenFailingPotIncentivesRiders Book:No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed Source: No, They Can't: Why Government Fails-But Individuals Succeed
“Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.” ShouldLittlesAuthorityBias Author:John Stossel
“I'm a little embarrassed about how long it took me to see the folly of most government intervention. It was probably 15 years before I really woke up to the fact that almost everything government attempts to do, it makes worse.” YearsLittlesLongFactsGovernmentFollyEmbarrassedInterventionGovernment Intervention Author:John Stossel
