Philosophy and Methodology

Rather than look to the state to transform flawed creatures into saints, we should strive to take human beings as they are and direct their energies into productive outlets rather than antisocial outlets.

In earlier days, the government employee was held to be a man who could not have made his way in the business world and was therefore tolerated with condescension.

James Buchanan thought the state was a voluntary institution. Murray Rothbard, on the other hand, understood the reality of state violence and coercion.

Hayek relentlessly scrutinizes and exposes the weak and patchwork structure of Keynes's theoretical arguments and then dismantles it brick by brick, leaving nothing standing.

He is the man who wants alcoholic liquors for any honest purpose whatsoever, who would use his liberty without abusing it, who would occasion no public question, and trouble nobody at all.

What is the proper sphere of law, property rights, and the state?

Austrian economics begins with universal axioms.

James Buchanan thought the state was a voluntary institution. Murray Rothbard, on the other hand, understood the reality of state violence and coercion.

If we wish to gain insight into the essence of nationality, we must proceed not from the nation but from the individual. What is the national aspect of the individual person and what determines his belonging to a nation?

Acton says the muse of the historian is Rhadamanthus, the avenger of innocent blood: "The historian must be a judge, and a hanging judge at that, to right the wrongs of history."