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2026-06-08 12:00:08 GMT

"The market economy is the only system that can provide true equality of opportunity."

2026-06-05 12:00:05 GMT

"Now judicial review, beloved by conservatives, can, of course, fulfill the excellent function of declaring government interventions and tyrannies unconstitutional."

2026-05-18 00:00:07 GMT

"The State’s power to license is the power to restrict freedom and innovation."

2026-05-14 12:00:07 GMT

"The State’s claim to provide public goods is a pretext for expanding its own power."

2026-05-10 00:00:07 GMT

"The market economy is the only system that can allocate resources efficiently without force."

2026-05-09 12:00:06 GMT

"The natural tendency of government, once in charge of money, is to inflate and to destroy the value of the currency."

2026-04-16 00:00:08 GMT

"In other words, 'greed' simply means that you are trying to relieve the nature given scarcity that man was born with."

2026-04-12 00:00:07 GMT

"War has generally had grave and fateful consequences for the American monetary and financial system."

2026-04-04 00:00:06 GMT

"Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place."

2026-03-28 00:00:07 GMT

"The market economy is the only system that has ever lifted man out of the morass of poverty and given him the leisure to develop his faculties."

2026-03-26 00:00:06 GMT

"The State’s power to nationalize industries is the power to destroy productivity and innovation."

2026-03-23 12:00:07 GMT

"The market economy is the only system that can provide true freedom of choice."

2026-03-23 00:00:09 GMT

"The market economy is a dynamic process of discovery, not a static allocation of resources."

2026-03-20 00:00:07 GMT

"The market, by expecting a fall in prices, discounts that fall and makes it happen right away instead of later."

2026-03-18 12:00:06 GMT

"It foresaw that World War II would transform America into a Leviathan State, into a domestic totalitarian collectivism, with suppression of civil liberties at home."

2026-03-15 00:00:06 GMT

"Barnes dismissed his own past criticism of the World War II unconditional surrender policy as valid but superficial; for he had learned from General Albert C. Wedemeyer’s book that the murder of Germans and Japanese was the overriding aim of World War II."

2026-03-14 00:00:08 GMT

"The State’s claim to protect workers is a pretext for limiting their freedom to negotiate."

2026-03-13 12:00:07 GMT

"The State always seeks to maximize its power and minimize the freedom of its subjects."

2026-03-12 00:00:07 GMT

"The State is a gang of thieves writ large."

2026-03-11 12:00:07 GMT

"The State’s power to nationalize industries is the power to destroy productivity and innovation."

2026-03-05 12:00:06 GMT

"The free market is the only system that can ensure prosperity without exploitation."

2026-03-04 12:00:07 GMT

"The free market is not a system imposed upon society; it is the natural outcome of human action."

2026-03-03 12:00:05 GMT

"The State’s power to create money out of thin air is a recipe for economic disaster."

2026-03-02 12:00:07 GMT

"The State’s claim to protect consumers is a pretext for limiting their choices."

2026-02-18 12:00:05 GMT

"The market economy is a network of voluntary exchanges, not a zero-sum game."

2026-02-11 12:00:04 GMT

"The market economy is the only system that can provide true economic freedom."

2026-02-11 00:00:05 GMT

"I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action."

2026-02-10 12:00:05 GMT

"Man is born a tabula rasa; he must learn how to choose the ends that are proper for him and the means that he must adopt to attain them."

2026-02-09 12:00:06 GMT

"It is absurd to say that they will be served better by a coercive, demagogic apparatus."

2026-02-09 00:00:05 GMT

"Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place."

2026-02-08 12:00:05 GMT

"The market economy is the only system that can provide for human needs through voluntary exchange."

2026-02-08 00:00:05 GMT

"We may test the hypothesis that the State is largely interested in protecting itself rather than its subjects by asking: which category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely—those against private citizens or those against itself?"

2026-02-07 12:00:05 GMT

"The State’s claim to provide public goods is a pretext for expanding its own power."

2026-02-07 00:00:06 GMT

"If you wish to know how libertarians regard the State and any of its acts, simply think of the State as a criminal band, and all of the libertarian attitudes will logically fall into place."

2026-02-06 12:00:05 GMT

"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."

2026-02-06 00:00:05 GMT

"There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'"

2026-02-05 12:00:06 GMT

"The market economy is the only system that can reward merit without coercion."

2026-02-05 00:00:06 GMT

"Government spending is always wasteful and inefficient."

2026-02-04 12:00:05 GMT

"The important desideratum is freedom of the market; a country or region will often best develop, depending on conditions of resources or the market, by concentrating on one or two items and then exchanging them for other items produced elsewhere."

2026-02-04 00:00:05 GMT

"The State’s claim to promote equality is a pretext for creating new forms of inequality."

2026-02-03 12:00:05 GMT

"The great German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer pointed out that there are two mutually exclusive ways of acquiring wealth; one, the above way of production and exchange, he called the ‘economic means.’ The other way is simpler in that it does not require productivity; it is the way of seizure of another’s goods or services by the use of force and violence."

2026-02-03 00:00:06 GMT

"The State’s power to control information is the power to manipulate public opinion."

2026-02-02 12:00:06 GMT

"In other words, 'greed' simply means that you are trying to relieve the nature given scarcity that man was born with."

2026-02-02 00:00:06 GMT

"The free market is the only system that can ensure fairness through voluntary exchange."

2026-02-01 12:00:06 GMT

"The State is a gang of thieves writ large."

2026-02-01 00:00:06 GMT

"The State’s power to nationalize industries is the power to destroy productivity and innovation."

2026-01-31 12:00:05 GMT

"The State’s claim to provide public goods is a pretext for expanding its own power."

2026-01-31 00:00:06 GMT

"Investment bankers do much of their business underwriting government bonds, in the United States and abroad. Therefore, they have a vested interest in promoting deficits."

2026-01-30 12:00:05 GMT

2026-01-30 00:00:06 GMT

"The individual man, in introspecting the fact of his own consciousness, also discovers the primordial natural fact of his freedom: his freedom to choose."

2026-01-29 12:00:05 GMT

"The free market is the only system that can generate wealth without coercion."

2026-01-29 00:00:06 GMT

"The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb."

2026-01-28 12:00:06 GMT

"Remember that the minimum wage law provides no jobs; it only outlaws them; and outlawed jobs are the inevitable result."

2026-01-28 00:00:06 GMT

"The free market is the only system that can deliver healthcare efficiently without force."

2026-01-27 12:00:05 GMT

"The State is a gang of thieves writ large."

2026-01-27 00:00:05 GMT

"If man acquires rights over things, it is because he is at once active, intelligent and free; by his activity he spreads over external nature; by his intelligence he governs it, and bends it to his use."

2026-01-26 00:00:06 GMT

"The most sanctified figure in American historiography is, by no accident, the Great Saint of centralizing 'democracy' and the strong unitary nation-state: Abraham Lincoln."

2026-01-24 12:00:05 GMT

"The free market is the only system that can provide goods and services without political interference."

2026-01-24 00:00:05 GMT

"The free market is the only system that can provide justice without violence."

2026-01-23 12:00:06 GMT

"The market economy is the only system that can foster innovation without force."

2026-01-23 00:00:07 GMT

"The market economy is the only system that can respond to changing conditions without bureaucratic delay."

2026-01-22 12:00:06 GMT

"Taxation is theft, purely and simply even though it is theft on a grand and colossal scale which no acknowledged criminals could hope to match."

2026-01-22 00:00:06 GMT

"Government intervention always makes things worse, never better."

2026-01-21 12:00:05 GMT

"The market economy is the only system that can provide for diverse preferences without coercion."

2026-01-21 00:00:05 GMT

"The State’s claim to regulate for safety is often a cover for restricting competition."

2026-01-20 00:00:05 GMT

"The fact that natural-law theorists derive from the very nature of man a fixed structure of law independent of time and place, or of habit or authority or group norms, makes that law a mighty force for radical change."

2026-01-19 12:00:05 GMT

"The most sanctified figure in American historiography is, by no accident, the Great Saint of centralizing 'democracy' and the strong unitary nation-state: Abraham Lincoln."

2026-01-19 00:00:06 GMT

"The market economy is a dynamic process of discovery, not a static allocation of resources."

2026-01-18 12:00:05 GMT

"The free market is the only system that can ensure peace through mutual benefit."

2026-01-18 00:00:05 GMT

"The State’s power to conscript is the power to enslave."

2026-01-17 12:00:06 GMT

"The free market is the only system that can ensure peace through mutual benefit."

2026-01-17 00:00:07 GMT

"The State’s power rests on its ability to convince the public that its actions are legitimate."

2026-01-16 12:00:05 GMT

"The market economy is the only system that can provide for human needs without sacrificing freedom."

2026-01-16 00:00:06 GMT

"The State’s claim to moral authority is a sham, as it is built on the violation of individual rights."

2026-01-15 12:00:05 GMT

"No one can find a safe way out for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction."

2026-01-15 00:00:07 GMT

"At the root of the women’s liberation movement is resentment against the very existence of women as a distinctive entity."

2026-01-14 12:00:05 GMT

"Government intervention always makes things worse, never better."

2026-01-14 00:00:05 GMT

"The State’s claim to a monopoly on justice is a claim to a monopoly on injustice."

2026-01-13 12:00:05 GMT

"The gold standard makes money a commodity, and how market forces create a stable economy."

2026-01-13 00:00:06 GMT

"The great fact of individual difference and variability (that is, inequality) is evident from the long record of human experience."

2026-01-12 12:00:05 GMT

"The State has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many."

2026-01-12 00:00:06 GMT

"In short, there can be no monopoly or monopoly price on the free market."

2026-01-11 12:00:05 GMT

"The State’s claim to represent the 'public interest' is a fiction designed to justify its actions."

2026-01-11 00:00:06 GMT

"There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'"

2026-01-10 12:00:05 GMT

"The State’s power to regulate is the power to control."

2026-01-10 00:00:06 GMT

"The free market is the only system that can promote individual responsibility and self-reliance."

2026-01-09 12:00:05 GMT

"The State’s power to control information is the power to manipulate public opinion."

2026-01-09 00:00:06 GMT

"War is murder, conscription is slavery, taxation is robbery."

2026-01-08 12:00:06 GMT

"The State’s power to subsidize is the power to distort the market and reward inefficiency."

2026-01-08 00:00:06 GMT

"John Stuart was the quintessence of soft rather than hardcore, a woolly minded man of mush in striking contrast to his steel-edged father."

2026-01-07 12:00:05 GMT

"No action can be virtuous unless it is freely chosen."

2026-01-07 00:00:06 GMT

"The State’s power to define money is the power to distort the entire economic system."

2026-01-06 12:00:05 GMT

2026-01-06 00:00:05 GMT

"Behind the honeyed but patently absurd pleas for equality is a ruthless drive for placing themselves at the top of a new hierarchy of power."

2026-01-05 12:00:04 GMT

"The Keynesian prescription for unemployment rests on the persistence of a ‘money illusion’ among workers."

2026-01-05 00:00:05 GMT

"The State’s claim to a monopoly on defense is a claim to a monopoly on aggression."

2026-01-04 12:00:05 GMT

"The free market is the most efficient allocator of resources."

2026-01-04 00:00:05 GMT

"The market economy is the only system that has ever lifted man out of the morass of poverty and given him the leisure to develop his faculties."

2026-01-03 12:00:05 GMT

"We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public."

2026-01-03 00:00:06 GMT

"Gorbachev’s stance contrasts admirably with the policy of the sainted Abraham Lincoln, who used massive force and mass murder to force the seceding Southern states to remain in the Union."