“Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.” GovernmentPoliticalPoliticsTaxesPaperDebtSpendingCombinationImperfectWorthlessInkPerfectly GoodInk And Paper Author:Milton Friedman
“At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.” PeopleNeedsSelfGovernmentCommonOpinionDemocracyStrangeMajorityCourtBottomCommon SenseCorporateCorporationsRejectionFlawsImperfectFoundingDistinctiveSelf-governmentUnderminingAmerican DemocracyTheodoreMoney In PoliticsStrange Times Author:John Paul Stevens
“As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical stopping place is totalitarianism -- unless we realize that tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.” HumansLongGovernmentRealizingHuman BeingsDealsArgumentLogicalImperfectionImperfectStoppingTotalitarianismExtendingPrice Of Freedom Book:Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays Source: Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays