Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

What kind of society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system.

"The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government."

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.