The oldest trick in the monetary book is cheating the people by debasing the coin or currency. It goes back at least as far as the Eighth Century B.C. when the Jewish prophet Isaiah chastised the Israelites for doing it.

I seriously doubt if God intends for politicians to fine or jail people who play football.

What we advocates of liberty have to point out and explain is that the more you rely on the state, the less secure you really are. 

Protectionism: you slap me, I poke you in the eye. Let’s rid ourselves of these senseless interventions as soon as we can, one way or the other.

As humorist P. J. O’Rourke explained it, “When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” Brazilians are learning this by the millions.

The increasing frenzy of the campus Left may be an indication that, in the words of Robert Tracinski in The Federalist, we are approaching “peak leftism.” I got a taste of it in Denver in April 2017.

Welcome to the world of diffused costs and concentrated benefits, the welfare state’s primary means of propulsion. Take a little bit from a lot of people and give it to a few people whose votes and allegiance the perpetrators thereby purchase without ever spending a nickel of their own.

Three cheers to the brave men and women who have fought in defensible wars for the right causes, such as liberty, self-determination, independence and security.

Trade is a two-way street. Closing the door to imports closes the door to exports.

His politics were both good and not, but his personal advice is fantastic.

If only the world appreciated how he brilliantly and thoroughly demolished socialism nearly a century ago, millions of early deaths and untold misery could have been avoided in the decades since. Fifty Nobels would be insufficient to appropriately honor the man, but the world we know is hardly fair.

The best person might not be the pick of the nominee. It wasn’t in 1920.

Freedom—understanding it, living it, teaching it, and supporting those who are educating others about its principles. That, my fellow Americans, is what patriotism should mean to each of us today.

An oldie from 1980 but its principles still apply today.

Justice George Sutherland on Private Rights and Government.

I’m reminded of the words of Tacitus some 2,000 years ago: “When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.”

The Forgotten History of Classical Liberalism in the Empire State.

Liberty is precious, rare, never guaranteed, and always threatened. It can be lost in a single generation if it’s not advanced and defended.

This guy badly needs some basic Economics.

Rome fell to invaders in 476 AD, but who the real barbarians were is an open question. The Roman people who supported the welfare state and the politicians who administered it so weakened society that the Western Roman Empire fell like a ripe plum that year. Maybe the real barbarians were those Romans who had effectively committed a slow-motion financial suicide.