The gas stations of DeKalb County, Georgia, never did nothing to nobody . . . except provide petrol. Yet, thanks to a draconian county ordinance, the stations can be shut down if they fail to splurge on expensive new video surveillance systems. Even if they already have security cameras. Which…
Everybody who objects to injustice does so on the ground that these practices violate some principle of justice which is above human will. This is so even when authority for justice, or equality among men, is found in the ‘dignity of the individual’; for that phrase is just as metaphysical…
The Socialists say, since the law organizes justice, why should it not organize labor, instruction, and religion?Why? Because it could not organize labor, instruction, and religion, without disorganizing justice.Frédéric Bastiat, The Law (1850).
Man was created for social intercourse; but social intercourse cannot be maintained without a sense of justice; then man must have been created with a sense of justice. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Francis W. Gilmer, June 7, 1816
On July 1, 1944, American activist and founder of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Lew Rockwell, was born.
On July 1, 1944, American activist and founder of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Lew Rockwell, was born.
“No Justice, No Peace” is an old, vaguely threatening leftwing bumpersticker slogan advocating the amorphous concept of “economic justice.” That basic utterance, whatever it means, has currently been labeled “income equality,” leaping off car bumpers and into the political mainstream as the issue de jour of President Obama and congressional…
Bureaucracies established by prohibition are inherently inefficient and unable to discover the knowledge required to solve social problems. Prohibition also suppresses the market's ability to solve social problems, so that little or no progress is made while prohibitions are in effect. And finally, prohibitions create profit opportunities which add to…
Too many people want to push America's schools in the wrong direction. Neal McCluskey, of the Cato Institute, isn't one of them: http://youtu.be/oo13VIX2aTg
You have a golden opportunity to help kill some of the bad laws infesting San Francisco’s city code. The news is being passed along by the indefatigable champions of liberty and property rights at the Institute for Justice. Wherever local governments have assaulted the right of citizens to use and…