Why governments' attempts to pick winners produce more losers than winners.
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone."
"Bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression."