Recipients of transfers tend to become less self-reliant and more dependent on government payments. When people can get support without exercising t….

Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides taking fa….

If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking f….

...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery..

Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, ser….

This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to protect us,….

Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be jus….

All nonstate threats to life, liberty, and property appear to be relatively petty and therefore can be dealt with. Only states can pose truly massive….

But politicians who talk about failed policies are just blowing smoke. Government policies succeed in doing exactly what they are supposed to do: cha….

Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of ….

The legacy of the New Del was, more than anything else, a matter of ideological change. Henceforth, nearly everyone would look to the federal govern….

Notwithstanding what some regard as the institutionalization of compassion, the transfer society quashes genuine virtue. Redistribution of income by ….

In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is ….

Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with math….

Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of taxation..

In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from the state's own c….

The state is the most destructive institution human beings have ever devised - a fire that, at best, can be controlled for only a short time before i….

When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie..

In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much less been asked to conse….

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud..

Many anti-energy groups display little appreciation of the extent to which modern economies depend pervasively on the use of fossil fuels and petroch….