On the Impossibility of Limited Government and the Prospects for a Second American Revolution

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

In a recent survey, people of different nationalities were asked how proud they were to be American, German, French, etc., and whether or not they believed that the world would be a better place if other countries were just like their own. The countries ranking highest in terms of national pride were the United States and Austria. As interesting as it would be to consider the case of Austria, we shall concentrate here on the U.S.

The American President: From Cincinnatus to Caesar

Clyde N. Wilson

The great body of the nation has no real interest in party.

—James Fenimore Cooper

The American Democrat, 1838

Executive Usurpation: A speech by the Honorable Clement L. Vallandigham, Congressman from Ohio

Introduction

One of the greatest speeches in American history on behalf of individual freedom and against despotism, especially relating to the unconstitutional usurpation of executive powers by the president of the United States, was made by Clement Vallandigham, a Democrat congressman from Ohio.

Speech on the Declaration of War Against Germany By the Honorable Robert M. La Follette, Sr., U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Opposing President Woodrow Wilson’s Request for a Declaration of War from Congress for World War I

Introduction

Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. (1855–1925) was one of the most courageous U.S. senators in American history. He earned the nickname “Battling Bob” for his vigorous political tactics. He was born in Primrose, Wisconsin, and worked his way through the University of Wisconsin.

(Prepared by Marilyn Tenney)

AAA. See Agricultural Adjustment Act

Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings (Basler), 203n, 204n, 220n, 228n

“Acquitting Judge, The” (Williams) in For A New America: Essays in History and Politics from Studies on the Left, 1959–1967 (Weinstein and Eakins, eds.), 324n, 328n

Ackley Gardner, 598

Activism, presidential scholars’ bias toward, 3

Acton, Lord John, xviii, xviiin, 280, 670n

“History of Freedom in Christianity, The” in Essays in the History of Liberty (Fears, ed.), 670n

• John V. Denson is editor of The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories.

• George Bittlingmayer is professor of economics at the University of Kansas.

• Marshall L. DeRosa is professor of history at Florida Atlantic University.

• Thomas J. DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola College.

• Lowell Gallaway is professor of economics at Ohio University.

• Richard M. Gamble is associate professor of history at Palm Beach Atlantic College.

• David Gordon is editor of The Mises Review.

The Philosophy
of Ownership

by

Robert LeFevre

First Printing 1966
Second Printing 1971

Robert LeFevre is president of
Rampart College.

He is the author of The Nature of
Man and His Government, This Bread
Is Mine, The Philosophy of Ownership,
and numerous other published works.

A noted speaker, he conducts
seminars for advanced student and
business-oriented groups.

The significance of property ownership has rarely been fully appreciated. All sentient life is concerned with property, either instinctively or rationally. No organism capable of volitional action can escape the demands arising within it for some kind of property relationship. Survival of all beings capable of consciousness is predicated directly upon some kind of property relationship.