Big Government

Zoning laws are a violation of property rights.

While Montaigne paved the way for the dominance of absolutist thought in France, surely the founder or at least the locus classicus of 16th-century

"Class interest led him almost always to the side of the smaller political unit against encroachment by the larger, because the greater the power of local self-government, as a rule, the better for the producer and the worse for the exploiter."

The overall view of Botero is that the morality and justification for actions of the prince are diametrically opposed to the principles that must g

The recent actions by the preservation commission against a private-property owner are nothing less than aggressive theft by a third party.

Social order is like barbecue. Both are defined in the process of their emergence.

Recorded at The Mises Circle in Phoenix, Arizona, on April 10th, 2010. Sponsored by James M. Rodney.

In the end, this is the reason why progressivism as a system of economic thought is every bit as bankrupt as Social Security.

Men do well under a plan and its controls if the Gestalt to be accomplished makes sense, is not too distant, and offers rewards as well as challenges for different levels of skill. But this is quite different from a superimposed, infallible political philosophy which would urge on us an engineered society.

Since states are created and directed by the boundaries of what people will accept as proper, since they exist only in the vacuum created by the public’s tolerance for aggression, the only lasting way to change the state is to persuade the public to rethink the program.