"Human beings in free societies are "the ultimate resource." Nothing -- not oil, not land, not gold, not microchips, nothing -- is as valuable to the material well-being of people as is human creativity and effort. Indeed, there are no resources without human creativity to figure out how to use them and human effort actually to do so."
-Don Boudreaux paraphrasing the late Julian Simon, Economist

"The way most goods and services become excellent -- I mean really excellent -- is through competition...How do you think we got from subsistence agriculture to super-cheap food? By mandates?"
--Tyler Cowen

"The jaws of power are always opened to devour."
-John Adams, 1765