Edith Hamilton: “If men insisted on being free from the burden of a life that was self-dependent and also responsible for the common good, they would cease to be free at all. Responsibility was the price every man must pay for freedom. It was to be had on no other terms.”

A society can either create wealth or plunder and redistribute it. Which side are you on?

A good leader does not consider himself God and does not try to replace the personal plans of individuals with his own governmental plan but must realize that prosperous economies exist not because arrogant civil servants set them up, but because, thanks to consumers and risk-taking, private entrepreneurs have been allowed the freedom to thrive.

In the midst of the Great Depression, many Americans put common sense aside and accepted Franklin Roosevelt’s beguiling promises. But decades later, we know that those promises were rooted in politics, not economics, and that the New Deal was nothing more than a series of expensive blunders.

The principle that ends justify means is one where the ethics of individualists and collectivists collide, F.A. Hayek saw.

Lots of great info in this video interview on ancient Rome and lessons for today — recorded in April 2021

Get your history of Jim Crow from people who know what they’re talking about, such as Jerrold Packard and Bill Steigerwald and Ray Sprigle, not from politicians more interested in manipulating you than informing you.

Even the most successful people confront the specter of failure. The question is can we learn from it.

You owe it to yourself on May Day, and every day, to know what makes the difference between wealth and poverty for the workers of the world.

An 11-minute audio podcast in the “Rule of Law” series of Lee Habeeb’s “Our American Stories,” based on articles of mine on the Wilson administration.

To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, “What you are speaks so loudly I cannot hear what you’re saying.”

The first communist state enslaved millions and bedeviled the world until its collapse in 1991.

If we banned milk, we would produce precisely the same effects we’ve seen with marijuana prohibition. The streets would be full of milk pushers. The milk business would go to the Al Capones of the world instead of your local grocer.

Audiences ask me all the time, “Mr. Reed, what do you think the #1 problem is in the country today?” They expect me to say it’s government spending, or deficits, or crime, or opioids, or taxes, or racism, or the national debt. It is none of those.

Until the polls opened on election day, she had no idea she was even on the ballot.

The modern welfare state began not as a utopian vision of altruism and compassion, but as nothing more than a political ploy for one man to keep himself and his party in office.

Restriction of free thought and free speech might be the most dangerous of all subversions.

Do you think the Romans would applaud or boo? Would my short but pointed speech change anyone’s behavior?

What if all entrepreneurs took a walk and disappeared?

Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to simply avoid the socialist trap in the first place?