Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. —Ludwig von Mises (The Theory of Money and Credit)
Depressions and mass unemployment are not caused by the free market but by government interference in the economy. —Ludwig von Mises (The Theory of Money and Credit)
We have unfortunately created a little class of mini bureaucrats who are more concerned with keeping their jobs and perpetuating the institution as an institution and raising money than they are with spreading the message. When we started out our goal was to spread the word, it was sort of evangelical, to spread the word of liberty out to the world at large and we had people like Murray Rothbard and John Hospers and many other distinguished thinkers of that era involved in the party. Now we’re down to the level of people who are I think for the most part well intended, but when compared to those men are several orders down the intellectual scale and they are absorbed with minutia they are concerned with budgets, they are afraid to say anything that might scare people, that might keep people from voting for us. So it’s become a very timid organization in the past 6 or 8 years. —David Nolan
We have unfortunately created a little class of mini bureaucrats who are more concerned with keeping their jobs and perpetuating the institution as an institution and raising money than they are with spreading the message. When we started out our goal was to spread the word, it was sort of evangelical, to spread the word of liberty out to the world at large and we had people like Murray Rothbard and John Hospers and many other distinguished thinkers of that era involved in the party. Now we’re down to the level of people who are I think for the most part well intended, but when compared to those men are several orders down the intellectual scale and they are absorbed with minutia they are concerned with budgets, they are afraid to say anything that might scare people, that might keep people from voting for us. So it’s become a very timid organization in the past 6 or 8 years. —David Nolan
The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. The long-term solution is to dismantle, not reform, the iron fist of the welfare state and the controlled economy. This includes the end (not the reform) of the IRS, the DEA, the BATF, the SEC, the FDA, HUD, the departments of HHS, Labor, Agriculture, and Energy, and every other agency that takes money from some and gives it to others or interferes with peaceful behavior. —Jacob Hornberger
Need now means wanting someone else’s money. Greed means wanting to keep your own. Compassion is when a politician arranges the transfer. —John Stossel
Need now means wanting someone else’s money. Greed means wanting to keep your own. Compassion is when a politician arranges the transfer. —John Stossel
I see no reason better than greed for claiming that I 'deserve' a share of someone else's wealth, which I have had no part in producing. —David Friedman (The Machinery of Freedom)
I see no reason better than greed for claiming that I ‘deserve’ a share of someone else’s wealth, which I have had no part in producing. —David Friedman (The Machinery of Freedom)
People pull through hard times. What I can’t understand is, how can anybody figure that the government can support us, when we support the government. —Rose Wilder Lane (The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority)
People pull through hard times. What I can’t understand is, how can anybody figure that the government can support us, when we support the government. —Rose Wilder Lane (The Discovery of Freedom: Man’s Struggle Against Authority)
Myth: The Govt needs to spend more money
on Education.
Truth: The U.S. Govt Budget on Education has sky-rocketed over the past 30 years while student scores have fallen dramatically.
Inflation distorts the structure of production. It leads to the overexpansion of some industries at the expense of others. This involves a misapplication and waste of capital.
Yet the ardor for inflation never dies. It would almost seem as if no country is capable of profiting from the experience of another and no generation of learning from the sufferings of its forebears.
For it is the nature of inflation to give birth to a thousand illusions. —Henry Hazlitt
Printing money in place of real savings can create the illusion of more wealth. Just as the addition of water can create the illusion of more milk. —Henry Hazlitt
Printing money in place of real savings can create the illusion of more wealth. Just as the addition of water can create the illusion of more milk. —Henry Hazlitt
