Dr. Lawrence Reed’s “The Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy” has been around for several years, but it needs to be revisited every once in a while.  In my opinion, this small pamphlet is one of the finest guidelines for liberty ever written.

The seven principles are

• Free people are not equal and equal people are not free.
• What belongs to you, you tend to take care of; what belongs to no one or everyone tends to fall into disrepair.
• Sound policy requires that we consider long-run effects and all people, not simply short-run effects and a few people.
• If you encourage something, you get more of it; if you discourage something, you get less of it.
• Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own.
• Government has nothing to give anybody except what it first takes from somebody, and a government that’s big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you’ve got.
• Liberty makes all the difference in the world.

 You can read the whole thing here.

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