U.S. History

Recorded at Mises University 2010. Includes an introduction by Mises Institute founder and chairman, Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. 

Looks at causes of the 1929 crash and ensuing depression, with lessons for today. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

"The more controls and taxation a State imposes on its people," Sam wrote, "the more they will evade and defy them.

"Gentlemen, you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights, for there is not sufficient water to supply the land." – John Wesley Powell

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

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.

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."

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

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."

It should come as a monumental embarrassment to future social scientists to observe that their mainstream predecessors were worse than useless for