We Cannot Distribute More Wealth

The Times Call For Courage. The Times Call For Hard Work. But If The Demands Are High, It Is Because The Stakes Are Even Higher. They Are Nothing Less Than The Future Of Human Liberty, Which Means The Future Of Civilization.

The State, Of Course, Is Absolutely Indispensable To The Preservation Of Law And Order, And The Promotion Of Peace And Social Cooperation. What Is Unnecessary And Evil, What Abridges The Liberty And Threatens The True Welfare Of The Individual, Is The State That Has Usurped Excessive Powers And Grown Beyond Its Legitimate Function - The Super-state, The Socialist State, The Redistributive State, In Brief, The Ironically Misnamed 'welfare State.'

The 'private Sector' Of The Economy Is, In Fact, The Voluntary Sector; And The 'public Sector' Is, In Fact, The Coercive Sector.

Government Relief Tends Constantly To Get Out Of Hand. And Even When It Is Kept Within Reasonable Bounds It Tends To Reduce The Incentives To Work And To Save Both Of Those Who Receive It And Of Those Who Are Forced To Pay It. It May Be Said, In Fact, That Practically Every Measure That Governments Take With The Ostensible Object Of 'helping The Poor' Has The Long-run Effect Of Doing The Opposite.

Government Planning Always Involves Compulsion.