Poetry is not my strong suit, I’m no good at writing verse. My prose may be no better, but at least I could do worse.

Today’s advocates of the spendthrift nanny state dismiss this practitioner of small government as a simple man of even simpler times. His wisdom, however, demonstrates the crucial difference between simple and simplistic.

A hideous monument to the essence of socialism, which is FORCE.

The experiences of those who came before, especially when understood in the context of their times, are fraught with lessons we ignore at our peril.

An event two centuries before Magna Carta can stake a strong claim as the real genesis of English liberty.

They wanted a triumph of exhortation over incentive, of intentions over results, of wishful thinking over actual performance.

His entire adult life is a story of power lust—of fighting for power, abusing it when he got it, being ousted when it made him over-confident, then fighting to regain it, and now doing his best to keep it for life.

If Henry VIII knew his history, he might have learned from the earlier Henry and been a better money manager.

The Founders would be among the first to tell you they did not possess all the answers to everything. But they were confident that a free people would eventually come up with better answers than corrupt elites who worship power.

Hope is not something you can touch, taste, smell or see but it’s powerful stuff, a compelling motivator. Here are some reasons why it’s so important.

Banning the transport of stuff that people desire is much easier said than done and may well produce more victims than the stuff itself.

Yes, unbelievable as it may be to small children, governments and double standards go together like peanut butter and jelly.

My speech for the Free Market Road Show conference in Podgorica, Montenegro — May 2021. In the video, the speech begins at about 6:50.

For more than five decades as a journalist, George Schuyler eloquently assailed Jim Crow, Big Government, and socialism.

Liberty is an environment in which everyone makes choices about his life without fearing the initiation of force against him.

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.