Big Government

"I just want to caution Austrian and libertarian readers not to assume that anyone who 'thinks global warming is a big hoax' is automatically a great scholar.

The word from Washington is that things are looking up. The citizens in Segovia used to hear the same thing from Rome.

"Where the state is god and the 'public interest' worshipped, individual man will be found bleeding upon the altar."

"FDA bureaucrats are extremely risk averse."

Obama will continue to push forward a statist agenda and he will routinely use violence to plunder people of their rightfully owned property, suppress their civil liberties, and deprive them of their lives.

Under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, the brief continues, the plaintiff is denied rights reserved to states under the Constitution, and specifically Blattner's right to make a living by feeding his own wheat to his chickens.

There prevails in the writings of many contemporary authors the disposition to represent every extension of governmental power and every restrictio

"Libertarianism is rejected by the modern Left — which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern Right — which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism."

"It was the hidden hand of government that failed, not the market."

The real horror is the prohibition, which has brought about a dark despotism that everyone pretends not to notice.