U.S. History

There’s no doubt that prosperity has smiled brighter and brighter on the last four generations.

You may say it another way: that the intentions of mass production cannot be realized unless management and labor are both free. So long as that freedom existed in the motorcar industry, the cost of an automobile went lower and lower until it became, pound for pound, the cheapest manufactured thing in the world, not the Ford car only but all cars; and automobile labor at the same time was the highest-paid labor of its kind in the world.

No person or group of people is without value — not even those whom our own government chooses to label the enemy.

James Fenimore Cooper, America’s first great national novelist, widely influenced our literature and Americans’ sense of history in the

Reader “Albert Nock” was kind enough to send me notice of some new research on v

If we adopt the principle that the government can do what it wishes to cope with present needs as it understands them, then we repudiate, not some legal technicality, but the basic principle of the American Revolution.

It’s been a kick digging up all these lost books by Garet Garrett. What amazing insight he had in economics and politics!

But the critical thing is that these people will be governing themselves, and the critical thing that prevents progress today — the presence of the foreign occupier — will be gone. The solution is imperfect, to be sure, but it is better than the opposite of turning the entire world into a prison camp run by the U.S. government.

Flynn gradually came around to a full-blown embrace of the free market as the only means to check the power of the government-business combine.

Gelernter would profit from reflecting about a remark often attributed to Voltaire: if you want to found a new religion, you should arrange to be crucified and rise from the dead on the third day.