War and Foreign Policy

Financial institutions will not only have mercantile "protection" from the federal government in terms of regulations; they will become social arms of that government.

Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline.

Governments have made the war; only the peoples can make an unarmed peace.

Wars are a principal means for the state to increase its power.

Judge Denson has, in this excellent book, expertly solved a difficult problem. Wars are a principal means for the state to increase its power.

The neoconservatives are already in hot pursuit of Human Smoke. In the March 2008 issue of Commentary, David Pryce-Jones called it a "mendacious book."

In this instance, you can judge a book by its cover. The back of the dust jacket displays endorsements by two of our foremost warmongers. Both John McCain and Joseph Lieberman praise Kagan as an insightful analyst of foreign policy.

At the outset of the American “experiment,” the tax burden was light. Money was gold and silver.

"Suppose that the United States wishes to pursue a policy of nonintervention. Unless attacked, we will not resort to military measures; and, as Washington and Jefferson advised, we will avoid entanglements in foreign quarrels."

Ron Paul is well aware of the limited value of the Constitution: it is a far from ideal arrangement. Nevertheless, it remains the fundamental law of the United States and, if interpreted correctly, provides an excellent means to check the depredations of a government that violates its provisions.