World History

Calvin’s embattled followers, enjoying rising aspirations against non-Calvinist rulers, developed justifications for resistance to evil ruler

In the long run, the religious "peace" of absolutist "moderation" turned out to be the peace of the grave for many Huguenots.

"Socialism and legislation seem to be inevitably connected if socialist societies are to keep alive."

Over two decades before the Spanish Jesuit de Mariana, George Buchanan arrived, for the first time, at a truly individualist theory of natural rights and sovereignty — and therefore a justification for individual acts of tyrannicide.

The European experience, in fact, suggests that governments play absolutely no role in stabilization.

 By the time the politicians are in charge, most of the eggheads will be in jail or in flight to Canada or Mexico.

"An excessive quantity of money," he opined, "should be avoided."

The attempts to create a double standard of gold and silver failed lamentably.

Free minds are inventive minds. That is why America has always been a land of inventors.

"Social democracy is still here in all its variants, defining our entire respectable political spectrum, from advanced victimology and feminism on the Left over to neoconservatism on the Right. We are now trapped, in America, inside a Menshevik fantasy, with the narrow bounds of respectable debate set for us by various brands of Marxists. "