Free Markets

Sire, the administration that you have honored with your confidence has proposed a law to prohibit your faithful subjects from using their right hands.

The right of secession follows at once from the basic rights defended by classical liberalism, beginning with the principle of self-ownership.

The problem in Europe (and the USA) is not too much but too little austerity — or its complete absence.

If you are asked, "What, then, is to be done?" reply, "Be just to everybody."

Tax gatherer: "You have secured twenty tuns of wine? Have the goodness to deliver up to me six of the best." Vintner: "Good Heaven! you are going to ruin me."

 President Obama's recent re-election bid included considerable pandering to women voters, including the so-called equal-pay-for-equal-work campaign.

The argument over gold is a replay of the arguments of Adam Smith against the arguments of the mercantilists.

What we have in mind when we talk about interventionism is the government's desire to do more than prevent assaults and fraud.

If outcry is preferred to argument, let us vociferate, "King Midas has a snout, and asses' ears."