Rather than look to the state to transform flawed creatures into saints, we should strive to take human beings as they are and direct their energies into productive outlets rather than antisocial outlets.
In such proposals as let us raise farm prices, let us raise wage rates, let us lower profits, let us curtail the salaries of executives the "us" ultimately refers to the police.
La pregunta que se le plantea al gobernante del Estado es: ¿Cómo puedo liberarme de dos limitaciones efectivas de mi poder: la resistencia fiscal en forma de caída de los ingresos fiscales y la necesidad de pedir préstamos y pagar intereses a los bancos?
Los bienes de capital están disponibles gracias a la seguridad de los derechos de propiedad privada y a una clase de personas dispuestas a ahorrar e invertir. Sin esto, no puede haber grandes progresos en el nivel de vida. Pero todo esto lleva su tiempo.
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.
