Rights Might Be Universal But Their Enforcement

I See No Other Conceivable Strategy For The Achievement Of Liberty Than Political Action. Religious Or Philosophical Conversion Of Each Man And Woman Is Simply Not Going To Work; That Strategy Ignores The Problem Of Power, The Fact That Millions Of People Have A Vested Interest In Statism And Are Not Likely To Give It Up.... Education In Liberty Is Of Course Vital, But It Is Not Enough; Action Must Also Be Taken To Roll Back The State.

If We Look Around, Then, At The Crucial Problem Areas Of Our Society - The Areas Of Crisis And Failure - We Find In Each And Every Case A “red Thread” Marking And Uniting Them All: The Thread Of Government. In Every One Of These Cases, Government Either Has Totally Run Or Heavily Influenced The Activity.

The Diversity Of Mankind Is A Basic Postulate Of Our Knowledge Of Human Beings. But If Mankind Is Diverse And Individuated, Then How Can Anyone Propose Equality As An Ideal? Every Year, Scholars Hold Conferences On Equality And Call For Greater Equality, And No One Challenges The Basic Tenet. But What Justification Can Equality Find In The Nature Of Man? If Each Individual Is Unique, How Else Can He Be Made 'equal' To Others Than By Destroying Most Of What Is Human In Him And Reducing Human Society To The Mindless Uniformity Of The Ant Heap?

On The Free Market, Everyone Earns According To His Productive Value In Satisfying Consumer Desires. Under Statist Distribution, Everyone Earns In Proportion To The Amount He Can Plunder From The Producers.

I See The Liberty Of The Individual Not Only As A Great Moral Good In Itself (or, With Lord Acton, As The Highest Political Good), But Also As The Necessary Condition For The Flowering Of All The Other Goods That Mankind Cherishes: Moral Virtue, Civilization, The Arts And Sciences, Economic Prosperity.