Quotes from Thomas E. Woods Jr.

No longer does it make sense for an inventor to ask himself, "Can I make a better mousetrap?" because the threat is greater that the government might ban his mousetrap, however safe and efficient it is.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

No one forces you to buy a Twinkie. But governments do force you to fight in their wars and pay for their bailouts.

The war was fought to prevent the secession, not to free the slaves. People who took up arms in the South did so because they were being invaded.

The greatest gains against poverty in the United States occurred when government was least involved.

The biggest anachronism, usually, in a historical movie is, again, the author doesn't want to be thought to in any way share the social conventions or whatever of the time, so there's always this auctorial alter ego. So you have a movie set in the 1830s where you'll have a female character who has the attitudes of a twenty-first-century screenwriter. And that to me is a true anachronism.

The State then uses this monopoly to wield power over the inhabitants of the area and to enjoy the material fruits of that power.

The economy which prefers fictitious money to real, is, at best, like that which prefers a leaky ship to a sound one.

Churchmen sought to introduce rational trial procedures and sophisticated legal principles in place of the superstition-based trial by ordeal that had characterized the Germanic legal order.

As Ludwig von Mises puts it in this seminal book, modern man "must free himself from the habit, just as soon as something does not please him, of calling for the police.

Since the Fed was established in 1913 the dollar has lost 95 percent of its value.

The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly exchange--all sponsored by the Church--provided the framework for the Scientific Revolution.

We're being attacked for what we do in the Islamic world, not for who we are or what we believe in or how we live.

If the federal government is an addict, then the Federal Reserve System is its enabler.

the people who attacked Mr. Paul are much more concerned with staying in power than they are with protecting my family and yours.

Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success a victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment.

society degenerates into a condition of low-intensity civil war, with each pressure group anxious to secure legislation aimed at enriching itself at the expense of the rest of society.

If you want to stop the war machine, you'll have to go after the money machine.