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The Attack on Economic Liberty
by Jacob G. Hornberger
I am writing to ask you to help us fund a special project that involves reprinting in booklet form an 11-part essay entitled “Economic Liberty and the Constitution,” which I wrote for our monthly journal, Freedom Daily, in 2003. This essay is a direct, frontal assault on the socialism, interventionism, and fiat-money standard that have pervaded our land since at the least the time of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal....read more
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose, if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.
— Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” [1849]
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