The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln
[Public choice] analyzes the motives and activities of politicians, civil servants and government officials as people with personal interests that may or may not coincide with the interest of the general public they are supposed to serve. It is an analysis of how people behave in the world as it is.
- Arthur Seldon
From Preface to The Vote Motive by Gordon Tullock, 1976), p. x.
It does not follow that whenever laissez faire falls short government interference is expedient; since the inevitable drawbacks of the latter may, in any particular case, be worse than the shortcomings of private enterprise.
- Harry Sidgwick, 1887
Quoted in Charles Wolf, Jr., Markets or Government s, 1988), p. 17.
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