Mises Daily

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

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

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

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.

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

 In the market economy there are no conflicts between the interests of the buyers and sellers.

Hitler is the modern archetype of political evil, but many who condemn him still embrace his socialist economic policies.

People who are born as the wealthy children of successful businesspeople are often very confused about how economic prosperity is created.

For the positivist, a man is a machine like an automobile, and the positivist denies to his fellow men the faculty of choosing ends and the means to attain these ends.

The principal characteristic shared by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle — the three greatest philosophers of ancient Greece — was their inability to grasp the essential principles of the spontaneous market order and its dynamic process of social cooperation.