Biographies

"Holt, in effect, reasoned his way to libertarianism from his relentless, dogged analysis of what worked and didn't work in education, in the schoolroom."

Among the absolutist writers following Bodin, the 17th-century servitors of the absolute state, all hesitance or piety to the medieval legacy of strictly limited taxation was destined to disappear. State power, unlimited, was to be glorified.

"I ought to exercise my talents for the benefit of others; but that exercise must be the fruit of my own conviction; no man must attempt to press me into the service." —William Godwin

The percolation of ideas is an endlessly fascinating topic, and Margit von Mises adds scores of detail that will enable her readers to track the penetration of Mises's philosophy to the most unlikely places.

True enough, while I would have met the qualifications of planning to go on for a secondary education, having a 3.0 GPA or better, and being a varsity letter winner, I wouldn't have stood a chance against the student athletes I'm considering this year, or any who have applied the last few years we've awarded the "Frenchie."

"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."

"There is a great need for an introductory economics text that begins with the fundamentals of human action, develops economic principles in a way that students can understand, and then applies these principles to economic policy."

Do we have perennial libertarian problems, like losing our freedoms year after year? The long view of liberty shows that overall Americans are more free, but getting our ideas out there is required. The remnant exists and they will find us.

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

"There is of course no point whatever in trying to formulate independent 'laws' for the behavior of two interdependent quantities.