Words Worth Noting - June 1, 2022

“Human beings can control their own acts, but not the consequences of their acts to themselves or to others. Society can subject the distribution of wealth to whatever rules it thinks best: but what practical results will flow from the operation of those rules, must be discovered, like any other physical or mental truths, by observation and reasoning.”

John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, quoted in Thomas Sowell, Classical Economics Reconsidered