Entrepreneurship

Murray Rothbard was a cheerful, sweet, likeable man who didn't hate anyone, especially fellow libertarians.

"From the Austrian perspective, if some form of collaborative activity is involved in the creation of literature, it is still always collaboration among individuals, whereas in the Marxist view collaboration is typically understood in collectivist terms."

"An individualist unafraid to think for himself, Mariana clearly took little stock in the Jesuit ideal of the society as a tightly disciplined military-like body."

Protectionism and all other forms of war by the state on its people are devastating, and need to be undone.

"The Austrian School is the most humane form of economics we know, and the most philosophically informed — hence we regard it as the most relevant to humanistic studies."

Cather's most straightforwardly economic book is O Pioneers! (1913).

In a governmentally controlled society, the unrestricted enjoyment of property ownership is not permitted, since government has the power to tax, regulate, and sometimes even confiscate (as in eminent domain) just about anything it pleases. In a laissez-faire society, everything which was valued and rationally claimed would be owned, and this ownership would be total.

As champions of liberty, Paine and Bastiat threw the covers off the fallacies and institutions that stood in the way of its realization. Both writers bequeathed to us arsenals of intellectual ammunition that will always be deadly to statism.

Here is the truth that environmentalists do not face: Sometimes conserving is not a good idea.

"It turns out that there was nothing inevitable about cultural decline. All it takes is one person to make the change."