Big Government

The total state claims the right to see you naked. A freer people would demand an end to such nonsense and the policies that perpetuate it.

The progressive period saw a re-alliance of church and state - secularized extreme Pietism (Protestant sects) with government as savior by intervening in markets. The Pure Food and Drug Act was a prototype for the whole progressive movement toward purity of body, mind and soul.

Mises illustrates his case with a review of the fall of Germany, from the collapse of classical liberalism to the rise of nationalism and socialism

All the oratory of the advocates of government omnipotence cannot annul the fact that there is but one system that makes for durable peace: a free market economy. Government control leads to economic nationalism and thus results in conflict.

Shiller's proposal, in contrast, gives the government a perverse incentive to raise tax receipts while strangling GDP. Isn't the government doing a great job of that already?

The small State can do to Society everything the large State can do, but not so much of it.

When the enemy is at the gates, the individual abdicates his self-reliance and places himself unreservedly under the direction of the captain; he g

The New Deal is the American manifestation of the worldwide trend which produced fascism, communism and British socialism. It results from the desire of man to escape individual responsibility, to lean upon the all-powerful state and to trade his freedom for the politician's promise of security.

"The object aimed at in the punishment of vices is to deprive every man of his natural right and liberty to pursue his own happiness under the guidance of his own judgment and by the use of his own property."

It seems there is a terrible price to be paid for genius.