"While there are many who will agree that they, personally, should not kill, steal, enslave, it is only the individual with a first-rate moral nature who will have no hand in encouraging any agency — even government — in doing these things for him or others."
The international gold standard works without any action on the part of governments.
Over two decades before the Spanish Jesuit de Mariana, George Buchanan arrived, for the first time, at a truly individualist theory of natural rights and sovereignty — and therefore a justification for individual acts of tyrannicide.
By the time the politicians are in charge, most of the eggheads will be in jail or in flight to Canada or Mexico.
The essential critical faculty cannot be developed when we copycat the questions and conclusions of others.
Ultimately, he and the woman are caught, imprisoned, and tortured. In the end, he is sincerely repentant of his crimes and is completely devoted to the all-encompassing government that has done him all this harm.
"Social democracy is still here in all its variants, defining our entire respectable political spectrum, from advanced victimology and feminism on the Left over to neoconservatism on the Right. We are now trapped, in America, inside a Menshevik fantasy, with the narrow bounds of respectable debate set for us by various brands of Marxists. "
To converse with others, associate with them, shake hands with them, or even to experience such intimacies as a sexual relationship, does not constitute a property relationship, but rather a relationship with a property owner.
With an inflationary or deflationary policy, a government does not promote the public welfare, the commonweal, or the interests of the whole nation
Salmasius pointed out that moneylending was a business like any other, and thereby entitled to charge a market price.
