Mises Daily

To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government.

Libertarianism recognizes that the only rules that satisfy civilized fundamental norms are Locke's principle of self-ownership and property principle, applied in the most consistent manner possible.

In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal “cradle-to-grave” healthcare coverage, to be accomplished throu

"Preservation of the tariff, by which the North exploited the South's economy, ranked foremost in Lincoln's calculus of reasons to launch the war, and emancipation of the slaves not at all."

Central bank's and government's loose monetary and fiscal policies are instrumental in the weakening of the process of real savings formation through the diversion of real savings from wealth generators to non-wealth-generating activities.

I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.

The attempt to enforce equality violates human nature.

"The key thing is that the price of producer goods has to fall faster and farther than consumer goods for the correction process to proceed."

The choice at base, therefore, is whether the world shall go back to the principle of freedom (not necessarily the conditions) of pre-1914, which unhappily no one under forty years of age remembers, or on to closer confinement in captivity as the socialistic system develops.

"The truth behind most of the regulations we have today is that there was already a social and cultural movement against the dangers featured in Madmen."