As Mark Thornton has shown, the big legislative change that FDR made at the start of his presidency, the decision that affected every single American citizen from one coast to the other, was the repeal of the thirteen-year hell of Prohibition.
Son las ideas las que determinan lo que la gente considera sus intereses. Los hombres libres no actúan de acuerdo con sus intereses. Actúan de acuerdo con lo que creen que fomenta sus intereses.
"The reality must be faced that the new…colony of Pennsylvania lived for the greater part of four years in a de facto condition of individual anarchism, and seemed none the worse for the experience."
Private ownership of the means of production is the fundamental institution of the market economy. It is the institution the presence of which characterizes the market economy as such. Where it is absent, there is no question of a market economy.
State intervention and a crushing fiscal policy made the whole empire groan under the yoke; more than once, both poor men and rich prayed that the barbarians would deliver them from it.
No hay otro medio para lograr el pleno empleo, el aumento de los salarios reales y un alto nivel de vida para el hombre común que la iniciativa privada y la libre empresa.
There is no other means to attain full employment, rising real wage rates and a high standard of living for the common man than private initiative and free enterprise.
