“When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.” PeopleMadeGovernmentRunningAsksMistakeCompanyFailingIndustryTerribleSurvivalBiggerMaking MistakesReverseDarwinism Author:Peter Schiff
“The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great fleets in peace - quite the reverse - but that they were unable to fund them in the crises of war. Mainly this was because they were forced to divert resources from the fleet to their armies, to fight territorial rivals frequently financed by their maritime enemy from the profits of sea trade.” WarReasonGovernmentFightingEnemySeaBuildingResourcesArmyCrisisTradeProfitFundReverseIncapableRivalsMonarchsTerritorialMaritime Author:Peter Padfield
“A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often creates a spirit precisely the reverse, carrying down to the lowest grade in society the desire and ambition of political domination.” GovernmentPoliticalSpiritDesirePoliticsEconomyAmbitionConstitutionInstitutionsDemocraticDetailsLiberalismGradesReverseLowestDominationConfinedPolitical FreedomCentral Government Book:Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy Source: Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy