U.S. History

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H.A. Scott Trask

"Jefferson described the new judicial establishment as 'a parasitical plant engrafted at the last session on the judiciary body'."

Murray N. Rothbard

In that way, the possessors of a liberal or pacifist conscience can go about their business assured that they could never be a party to capital punishment; while the rest of us can have the capital punishment we would like to have, free from the interference of liberal busybodies.

H.A. Scott Trask

Jefferson rejected the Federalist axiom that in order to have peace one must prepare for war — the theory being that the more powerful a country was in armaments the less likely it was to be attacked. Jefferson doubted both the wisdom of this theory and Federalist sincerity in invoking it."

Jeff Riggenbach

No other woman in America ever had to suffer such persistent persecution.

Arthur A. Ekirch Jr.

The revolutions were not "against England per se, but against the oppressions of the state, dominated by the English government." Rothbard adds that they "failed largely because the domestic oligarchs were propped up and reimposed by the English power."

Henry Hazlitt

The soundest monetary system and the only one fully compatible with the free market and with the absence of force or fraud from any source is a 100 percent gold standard.

Bettina Bien Greaves

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor made war inevitable. But the attack was not Roosevelt's reason for going to war. It was his excuse.