For Rothbard, the Articles of Confederation were not, contrary to most historians, an overly weak arrangement that needed to be replaced by the more centrally focused Constitution. Quite the contrary, the Articles themselves allowed too much central control.
Only by having a market can there be a sane profit-loss policy. If we love nature and want to preserve it, true property rights are needed.
There is no such thing as a right to privacy except the right to protect one's property from invasion.
The absolute right to run away is the child's ultimate expression of his right of self-ownership, regardless of age.
There is an interesting pattern to the problem of treating security as a macro-political problem rather than a micro-technical problem. Lew Rockwell reports that with every increase in the war on terror, the incidents of reported terror have increased.
Society is too complicated, too far reaching, too much a reflection of the free volition of individual actors, for government to be able to accomplish its ends.
With the egalitarian ideology at its core, the EU is heading in a direction that is opposite its original destination. The aim of the EU officials is to create a collective block and to build a high fortress around it. That block will hamper the growth of Europe.
So we can see that the government initiative to make the area hospitable to students will fail, and there is nothing that the government can do to stop this. When they fight economic law, economic law will eventually always win.
However horrendous we might find the mass shootings at Columbine, Virginia Tech, and other places, the fact is that when disaffected people start planning mass mayhem, the lack of a gun will not stop them.
Those who lend the government money are purchasing a promise to take someone's property in the future in order to repay the loan.
