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Jesús Huerta de Soto

Let us consider the process that led to the decline and disappearance of classical Roman civilization.

Ludwig von Mises

Government power rests on the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. Those who want more government want more compulsion and less freedom.

Bettina Bien Greaves

Henry Hazlitt has done us a great service, for it is a rare philosopher who recognizes that the consistent adherence to a set of ethical rules promotes social cooperation and benefits everyone in society.

Ludwig von Mises

What is called economic progress is the effect of an accumulation of capital goods exceeding the increase in population.

George Reisman

If allowed to function freely, capitalism is hard-wired to distribute resources to as many people as possible at affordable prices. You don't have to be rich to participate in the bounty.

Ludwig von Mises

The foremost aim of despotic government is to prevent any innovations that could endanger its own supremacy.

Ralph Raico

Hostilities in the North Atlantic provided the context — or rather, pretext — for America's participation.

Murray N. Rothbard

The war came to the United States as the "fulfillment," the culmination, the veritable apotheosis of progressivism in American life.

Gerard N. Casey

Representation is a fig leaf that is insufficient to cover the brutal fact that even in our sophisticated modern states, some rule and others are ruled.

Ralph Raico

The goal of the liberals — properly defined — has always been to fight what Macaulay called "the all-devouring state."