U.S. History

The pleaders for statism insist that while all-powerful government might be inherently bad under a despot or dictator, it can be a perfectly wholes

The blessings of liberty have been diffused in this land of ours to an unsurpassed degree, not because of government intervention but only because it was here that the torch of individual freedom was kindled and borne aloft.

Presented by Thomas DiLorenzo at “Recovery or Stagnation?,” the Mises Circle in San Francisco; sponsored by Mark L.

Indeed, if this book, rather than Keynes's General Theory, had been the point of departure for subsequent study of macroeconomic fluctuations, the world almost certainly would have been a much, much happier place.

Rothbard has in addition a carefully worked out theory, Austrian economics, to guide him.

Pages 233-245 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.

It is a betrayal of our duty to our patient to use any consideration of some greater social good defined by the government to alter the best course of action for the patient.

To continue on the road we Americans have traveled for the past century is ultimately to deliver ourselves completely into the hands of an unlimited government.

"Preservation of the tariff, by which the North exploited the South's economy, ranked foremost in Lincoln's calculus of reasons to launch the war, and emancipation of the slaves not at all."

I do not believe that the power and duty of the general government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.