The More The Government Intervenes To Delay

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.

Positivism Eliminates Any Kind Of Natural Law Principle - For Example, That There Are Economic Laws Which Can Be Transgressed Only At Your Peril. With Positivism, There Is A Tendency To Leap Into Ad Hoc Economic Theory.

It Is No Crime To Be Ignorant Of Economics, Which Is, After All, A Specialized Discipline And One That Most People Consider To Be A ‘dismal Science.’ But It Is Totally Irresponsible To Have A Loud And Vociferous Opinion On Economic Subjects While Remaining In This State Of Ignorance.

All Of The Services Commonly Thought To Require The State-from The Coining Of Money To Police Protection To The Development Of Law In Defense Of The Rights Of Person And Property-can Be And Have Been Supplied Far More Efficiently And Certainly More Morally By Private Persons. The State Is In No Sense Required By The Nature Of Man; Quite The Contrary.

Falling Prices Through Increased Production Is A Wonderful Long-run Tendency Of Untrammeled Capitalism.