[Originally printed in Facts and Comments (1902)] Were anyone to call me dishonest or untruthful he would touch me to the quick. Were he to say that I am unpatriotic, he would leave me unmoved. “What, then, have you no love of country?” That is a question not to be answered in a breath. The early abolition of serfdom in England, the early growth
[This essay is taken from chapter 19 of Spencer’s first major work of political philosophy— Social Statics: or, The Conditions essential to Happiness specified, and the First of them Developed (1851)—in which his first principle is equal liberty: “that every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession
[Excerpted from The Man versus the State , 1884] Most of those who now pass as Liberals are Tories of a new type. This is a paradox which I propose to justify. That I may justify it, I must first point out what the two political parties originally were; and I must then ask the reader to bear with me while I remind him of facts he is familiar with,
[Excerpted from The Man versus the State , 1884] It is said that when railways were first opened in Spain, peasants standing on the tracks were not unfrequently run over; and that the blame fell on the engine drivers for not stopping — rural experiences having yielded no conception of the momentum of a large mass moving at a high velocity. The
[ The Man versus the State (1892)] Officialism is habitually slow. When nongovernmental agencies are dilatory, the public has its remedy: it ceases to employ them and soon finds quicker ones. Under this discipline all private bodies are taught promptness. But for delays in state departments there is no such easy cure. Lifelong Chancery suits must
[As reprinted in Left and Right , Spring 1966, edited by Murray N. Rothbard. Rothbard’s Editorial Note: Education is a perennially important and controversial subject, especially in a country as child-centered as the United States. Within libertarian ranks, an unlimited diversity of viewpoint prevails, ranging from rigorous traditionalists to
Education is a perennially important and controversial subject, especially in a country as child-centered as the United States. Within libertarian ranks, an unlimited diversity of viewpoint prevails, ranging from rigorous traditionalists to ultra-progressives. Among the numerous Libertarians in the Los Angeles area, a controversy is now raging
[Publicado originalmente en Facts and Comments (1902)] Si alguien me llamara deshonesto o falso, me tocaría la fibra sensible. Si dijera que soy antipatriota, me dejaría indiferente. «¿Qué, entonces, no tienes amor a la patria?» Esa es una pregunta que no se responde en un suspiro. La temprana abolición de la servidumbre en Inglaterra, el temprano
1. El derecho a la ilegalidad voluntaria Como corolario a la proposición según la cual todas las instituciones deben subordinarse a la ley de igual libertad, no podemos sino admitir el derecho del ciudadano a adoptar una condición de ilegalidad voluntaria. Si todo hombre es libre de hacer cuanto desee, siempre que no vulnere la igual libertad de
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.