Democrats are afraid that somebody somewhere is making money. Republicans are afraid that somebody somewhere is having fun. Libertarians would allow you do anything you want so long as you don't use force or fraud. It must be accidental that the butcher Has carcasses arriving at his shop The very place where, when I need some meat, I accidently stop. The Machinery of Freedom by David Friedman Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect our liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent.
Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.
J. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, October 1927. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators P.J. O'Rourke. We are radicals for capitalism . There was, however, a difficulty. On this ground the tradionalists denounced the telescope, refused to look through it, and maintained that it revelaed only delusions.