Sunday, May 27, 2007

And people too.

That the general welfare is served by the free mobility of man's goods and services domestically is generally conceded. Then, why is mobility not equally desirable on the international scale? It is, of course.

— Leonard E. Read, Accent on the Right [1968]

Monday, May 14, 2007

Did someone forget to tell George?

History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents....... A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

— Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government [1944