Washington set out to transform a people's army, uniquely suited for a libertarian revolution, into another orthodox and despotically ruled statist force after the familiar European model.
In Human Action, Mises had shown that economic analysis leads directly to laissez faire conclusions. He demonstrated that government intervention entails consequences that are unwanted even from the point of view of the champions of these interventions.
What we really have to combat is all statism, and not just the Communist brand.
Every worldview and every ideology that is not entirely committed to asceticism must recognize that society is the great means to earthly ends.
One popular charge against anarchism is that it "means chaos." This is certainly debatable, and no anarchist ever deliberately wanted to bring about chaos.
Rothbard's obituary for Mises: "Words cannot express our great sense of loss: of … this courageous and lifelong fighter for human freedom; … this noble inspiration to us all."
Few people are aware of what the Federal Reserve System, acting on behalf of the U.S. Government, is doing to their money, writes Hans Sennholz.
You can only read so many books in a lifetime. How tragic it would be if among these the subject of liberty itself were neglected?
Gary Galles explains that it is the virtue of the market that genuine experts rise to the top and a mark of politics that pseudoexperts rule what they know nothing about.
Although they never actually accomplished it, one of the worst things the Keynesians did was convince some people that they had refuted Say's law of markets.
