World History

But the mere desire to be free has never saved any people who did not know and establish the things on which freedom depends — and these are the things of religion.

The “miracle” of Germany’s revival was not the result of a conscious rejection of socialism, but was rather an accident of politi

Right now, the libertarian forces seem to be in full retreat, and West Germany is advancing to familiar ground — to socialism.

Our ancestors relied on themselves; we rely on the welfare state.

Raico makes clear that American participation in the war had disastrous consequences for liberty.

Plato was the first of the “planners” and the true founder of socialism.

In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal “cradle-to-grave” healthcare coverage, to be accomplished throu

The choice at base, therefore, is whether the world shall go back to the principle of freedom (not necessarily the conditions) of pre-1914, which unhappily no one under forty years of age remembers, or on to closer confinement in captivity as the socialistic system develops.

It has in common with the classics all those qualities of clear thinking, objective presentation and lucid exposition which distinguish the wise ph

"The state as an abstract entity took on bodily form and was revealed, in the world wars of the 20th century, to be an all-devouring monster."