Wenn unsere Regierung für die Wüste Sahara zuständig wäre, wäre dort in 5 Jahren der Sand knapp geworden.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
When government - in pursuit of good intentions - tries to rearrange the economy, legislate morality, or help special interests, the cost come in inefficiency, lack of motivation, and loss of freedom. Government should be a referee, not an active player.
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
