Give Me The Clear Blue Sky Above

When Each Of Us Is Free To Work Out His Own Economic Destiny, Within The Framework Of The Market Economy, The Institution Of Private Property, And The General Rule Of Law, We Will All Improve Our Economic Condition Much Faster Than When We Are Ordered Around By Bureaucrats.

Government Provided Free Tuition Tends More And More To Produce A Uniform Conformist Education, With College Faculties Ultimately Dependent For Their Jobs On The Government, And So Developing An Economic Interest In Profession And Teaching A Statist, Pro-government, And Socialist Ideology.

Precisely Because The State Has The Monopoly Of Coercion It Can Be Allowed The Monopoly Only Of Coercion. Only If The Modern State Can Be Held Within A Strictly Limited Agency Of Duties And Powers Can It Be Prevented From Regimenting, Conquering, And Ultimately Devouring The Society Which Gave It Birth.

The Ideas Which Now Pass For Brilliant Innovations And Advances Are In Fact Mere Revivals Of Ancient Errors, And A Further Proof Of The Dictum That Those Who Are Ignorant Of The Past Are Condemned To Repeat It.

Once The Idea Is Accepted That Money Is Something Whose Supply Is Determined Simply By The Printing Press, It Becomes Impossible For The Politicians In Power To Resist The Constant Demands For Further Inflation.