European democracy broke down because there were no democrats left in continental Europe. The place held in America by the Gettysburg Address was occupied in Europe by the Communist Manifesto. No further comment is necessary.
"How can any human being learn autonomy, initiative, and personal responsibility when the decision of when, where, and whether he may eat his own food is not his to make?"
From Theory and History Part Two, “Determination and Materialism”. Narrated by John Pruden.
Conservatives have always believed that once a nation goes Communist it is irrevocably doomed — that collectivism, once adopted, is irreversible. Yugoslavia, and to some extent the remainder of Eastern Europe, have shown that this is not true, that the spirit of freedom can never be extinguished.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made war inevitable. But the attack was not Roosevelt's reason for going to war. It was his excuse.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
From An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II. Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
