As I have been continuing to read Sowell’s “A Conflict of Visions” I have been coming across all sorts of great quotes from the great minds of the past. Some I am familiar with and others I had not seen before. Here is a great one from Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations:
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load himself with most unnecessary attention but assume an authority which could safely be trusted to no council and senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of man who have folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
This seems so relevant today as we are seeing a government expand further than it ever has before, way outside of the boundaries established by its own constitution.
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