Legal System

"Government intervention in the housing market leads to further and further intervention."

One way to look at war likens it to domestic crime. If it is wrong for someone to initiate force against a person who has not violated rights, why should matters change when a group of people, acting under the command of a
 

"Calls for abolition of the patent system — especially those coming from a principled, rights-based approach — are very unlikely to be adopted at the present time."

The appropriate policy is not to strengthen labor standards but to open borders and allow people to cross them freely.

Although evils exist in both the shared and private forms of a city, it is only in the private form that the virtues of temperance, love, and generosity can be exercised.

The Communists rebuff any connection with the bourgeoisie. Even if the Front Populaire were to be renewed, an affiliation with the Communists would hardly be realizable for monarchists.

There was just something too utilitarian and results oriented in Rand's purportedly principled case for IP, and something too artificial about the state's copyright and patent statutory classifications.

Clearly, one of the top priorities of every libertarian should be ending the legal tender laws.

"Since most matter in the universe could be used to encode an idea, intellectual property is a claim over the entire universe."

Recorded at Mises University 2009.