Biographies

What DiLorenzo offers is not a biography of Hamilton but instead a critical examination of his ideas and a historical exploration of how they have shaped American history. DiLorenzo contrasts the statist, mercantilist, and nationalist philosophy of Hamilton with the strict constitutionalism of Jefferson.

Kropotkin is one of the half-dozen cases of anarchocommunists that are worth a second look.

“Peace, harmony, ease, security, happiness, will be found only in Individuality.”

Hutcheson brought to Scottish philosophy a solid belief in natural rights and in the beneficence of nature.

This world-renowned merchant  seeks no fame for his business achievements. Yet there is no story more full of encouragement and inspiration for youth.

The characters are rugged individuals — ingenious in their ability to fend for themselves, under all manner of adverse conditions — and asking for help from nobody.

The use of mathematics necessarily leads the economist to distort reality by making the theory convenient for mathematical symbolism and manipulation. Mathematics takes over, and the reality of human action loses out.

The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have an object — one thing to which they stick, letting all else go.

The trouble lies in the fact that people do not have an object — one thing to which they stick, letting all else go. Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application.

If you abjure all violence, you must abjure the state. Thus, while not all libertarians are pacifists, all pacifists are libertarians, whether they realize it or not (and, admittedly, a great many pacifists have not realized it). Gandhi, it appears, did realize it.