"The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem." ― Milton Friedman Topic(s): Death More From Milton Friedman "Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government." "The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that’s why it’s so essential to preserving individual freedom." "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand." More In Death "All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing."― Maurice Maeterlinck "Death is feared as birth is forgotten."― Douglas Horton "Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body."― Stanislav Grof