Private Property

The notion that only the state can provide an adequate defense is but one more statist myth — perhaps the most dangerous one of all.

Although evils exist in both the shared and private forms of a city, it is only in the private form that the virtues of temperance, love, and generosity can be exercised.

Rothbard's willingness to engage in frank criticism of bad ideas from any source only underscores his insistence on honesty and independence of mind.

What an irony it is that the capitalist entrepreneurs so despised by the Arts and Crafts Movement turned out to be its saviors.

There was just something too utilitarian and results oriented in Rand's purportedly principled case for IP, and something too artificial about the state's copyright and patent statutory classifications.

"Since most matter in the universe could be used to encode an idea, intellectual property is a claim over the entire universe."

Only these four steps, although drastic, will restore a fully free market in medical provision.

Unlike mass-minded persons who are easily manipulated and mobilized in service to various institutional causes, the Remnant remain skeptical of proselytizers who seek converts to ideologies, or who desire to save mankind.

Recorded at Mises University 2009.

Libertarians have been critical of zoning laws, which restrict the ability of property owners to develop their property or use it for their desired purposes.