Quotes from Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors.

Twenty years ago, as I was completing my freshman year in college, I was a full-blown neoconservative. Except I didn't know it. Having concluded that I was not a leftist, I simply decided by process of elimination that I must be a Rush Limbaughian.

Was U.S. entry into World War I such an act of genius that criticizing it is necessarily perverse?

The dollar has lost over 95 percent of its value since the Fed was created.

Government departments are arranged hierarchically; those at the top are used to issuing orders and expect them to be carried out by their subordinates right down the line. Minow assumed that a cultural institution like television has a similar hierarchical structure, as if television executives could requisition more creative programming the way a bureaucrat orders new pencils or department stationery.

The lingering effects of war can inspire callousness even after the guns have fallen silent. Many of us have seen the notorious clip from 60 Minutes in which Madeleine Albright, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and soon to be U.S. Secretary of State, declared that the price of half a million dead children as a result of the sanctions against Iraq during the 1990s had been "worth it.

what remotely educated or even half-conscious living being could consider John McCain a fit candidate for anything?

Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

Father Roger Boscovich is often credited as the father of modern atomic theory.

Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

Most arguments about income inequality are based on static analysis.

Why does she [Borowski] rail against other women's choices? Surely a core libertarian value is neutrality between different conceptions of the good?" Actually, no. I replied: "The core libertarian value is nonaggression. 'Neutrality between different conceptions of the good' has nothing to do with libertarianism. If you were truly neutral between different conceptions of the good, you wouldn't be arguing against Julie's conception of the good.

As Hayek, Milton Friedman, and so many others pointed out, a state with power, means, and inclination to intervene so heavily in economic affairs is unlikely to stop there. In the process of all this, religion and civil society are crowded out, appreciation for their role languishes, and the groundwork is laid for more restrictions on them in the future.

America's poor are better off than much of the European middle class today, and better off than the American middle class of the 1950s.

No oppressive government can survive if it has to use force to get people to obey its commands. What government must do is get the people to buy in, to voluntarily support their own oppressors, or the system will collapse.

The issue is whether the orders are morally acceptable or not, and that question is not answered by anti-intellectual demands of obedience.

state says it is. It will provide services you do not want, will never use, and may even find morally repugnant, and then tell you what you must pay for them.

The dot-com and housing bubbles can both be explained by artificial credit expansion, say such economists.

we should abolish the Fed altogether, since in the view of these economists it is entirely superfluous to a market economy.

Marx set forth a classic statement of inherent class antagonism on the market

stock market as measured by the Dow did decrease 25% between 1969 and 1971

the Church, in fact, was the matrix that produced the university, the nest whence it took flight." 31

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.