Free Markets

"How can any human being learn autonomy, initiative, and personal responsibility when the decision of when, where, and whether he may eat his own food is not his to make?"

"In 1982, Vince moved on to building a nonprofit organization to host a series of international libertarian conferences — the Libertarian International."

While his major practical interest had not been domestic or economic affairs, he had helped build up the absolutism of the French state.

Obviously the word [mercantilism] can only be used within strict limitations, but, alien as the conception of a national economy still was to the governments of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, it is plain from their conduct that they desired to protect the industry and commerce of their subjects against foreign competition, and even, here and there, to introduce new forms of activity into their countries.

"Because of rate busting, society as a whole will move toward greater and greater satisfaction and prosperity."

Money and wealth are distinct, and we should not assume that a fall in the stock indices necessarily means that "that money" has now been transferred someplace else.

"Oil was supposed to disappear by 1900. But the automatic conserving and incentive workings of the price system have repeatedly given the lie to these absurd projections."

From Part I of A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II: “The History of Money and Bank

"Everyone who opposed his views, according to Laffemas, was selfish, ignorant, and/or a traitor, and should be dealt with accordingly. All who disobeyed the regulations and prohibitions should suffer confiscation of their goods as well as death."