Mises Daily

Government power rests on the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. Those who want more government want more compulsion and less freedom.

Henry Hazlitt has done us a great service, for it is a rare philosopher who recognizes that the consistent adherence to a set of ethical rules promotes social cooperation and benefits everyone in society.

What is called economic progress is the effect of an accumulation of capital goods exceeding the increase in population.

If allowed to function freely, capitalism is hard-wired to distribute resources to as many people as possible at affordable prices. You don't have to be rich to participate in the bounty.

The foremost aim of despotic government is to prevent any innovations that could endanger its own supremacy.

Hostilities in the North Atlantic provided the context — or rather, pretext — for America's participation.

The war came to the United States as the "fulfillment," the culmination, the veritable apotheosis of progressivism in American life.

Representation is a fig leaf that is insufficient to cover the brutal fact that even in our sophisticated modern states, some rule and others are ruled.

The goal of the liberals — properly defined — has always been to fight what Macaulay called "the all-devouring state."

 In the market economy there are no conflicts between the interests of the buyers and sellers.