John Busenitz

“Managerial activity tends to become inbred and self-justifying. The enterprise comes to be thought of as existing for the sake of its managers – not the managers for the enterprise. A high percentage of the time of the managers and their staff is spent on “housekeeping” and other internal problems. Self-justifying managerial control tends to keep alive operations which have little social purpose other than to nourish an enclave of of managers. Tis is conspicuously true of governments. Many acute, expensive problems which our society faces – for example, in agriculture, radio-TV, railroads, finance, etc. - are largely manufactured by the managerial agencies founded to solve them.”
― James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World

“The Constitution is the document that prevents the government from doing all the terrible things it does.”
― Butler Shaffer

“Society cannot exist if the majority is not ready to hinder, by the application or threat of violent action, minorities from destroying the social order.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

“Welfare-state liberals fail to distinguish between a virtue and a requirement while contemporary conservatives fail to distinguish between a sin and a crime.”
― Bill Niskanen