Search Results in Quotes
91 results for your search term: “class”.
Nassau Senior on how the universal acceptance of gold and silver currency creates a world economy (1830)
In fact the portableness of the precious metals and the universality of the demand for them rende...
Thomas Paine asks how it is that established governments came into being, his answer, is "banditti of ruffians" seized control and turned themselves into monarchs (1792)
It is impossible that such governments as have hitherto existed in the world, could have commence...
Jane Haldimand Marcet, in a popular tale written for ordinary readers, shows the benefits to workers of foreign trade, especially at Christmas time (1833)
“So you see, my friends,” continued the landlord, “foreign trade has two advantages; for it not o...
Friedrich Hayek rediscovers the importance of Henry Thornton’s early 19th century work on “paper credit” and its role in financing the British Empire (1802)
To most of the contemporaries of Henry Thornton his authorship of the book which is now reprinted...
Yves Guyot accuses all those who seek Protection from foreign competition of being “Socialists” (1893)
Yes, large and small proprietors alike, those of you are Socialists, who beg for customs duties. ...
Adam Smith on compulsory attendance in the classroom (1776)
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the s...
Jeremy Bentham relates a number of “abominations” to the French National Convention urging them to emancipate their colonies (1793)
The attempt, I say, is iniquitous: it is an aristocratical abomination: it is a cluster of aristo...
Augustin Thierry laments that the steady growth of liberty in France had been disrupted by the cataclysm of the French Revolution (1859)
One circumstance, which especially struck me, is, that during the space of six centuries, from th...
Macaulay and Bunyan on the evils of swearing and playing hockey on Sunday (1830)
He does not appear to have been a drunkard. He owns, indeed, that, when a boy, he never spoke wit...
J.S. Mill was convinced he was living in a time when he would experience an explosion of classical liberal reform because “the spirit of the age” had dramatically changed (1831)
A change has taken place in the human mind; a change which, being effected by insensible gradatio...
Macaulay argues that politicians are less interested in the economic value of public works to the citizens than they are in their own reputation, embezzlement and"jobs for the boys" (1830)
Can we find any such connexion in the case of a public work executed by a government? If it is us...
Bastiat on the scramble for political office (1848)
All the newspapers, without exception, are speaking out against the scramble for office of which ...
John Calhoun on Slavery as a Positive Good
But I take higher ground. I hold that in the present state of civilization, where two races of di...
Sumner on the legalization of robbery by the State (1883)
The history of the human race is one long story of attempts by certain persons and classes to obt...
Auberon Herbert warns that the use of force is like a wild and dangerous beast which can easily get out of our control (1906)
The only true use of force is for the destruction, the annihilation of itself, to rid the world o...
Ludwig von Mises argues that sound money is an instrument for the protection of civil liberties and a means of limiting government power (1912)
The principle of sound money that guided nineteenth-century monetary doctrines and policies was a...
Herbert Spencer on the State’s cultivation of “the religion of enmity” to justify its actions (1884)
Chiefly, however, the maintenance of this faith is necessitated by the maintenance of fitness for...
Jefferson’s preference for “newspapers without government” over “government without newspapers” (1787)
The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these...
Shakespeare in Pericles on how the rich and powerful are like whales who eat up the harding working “little fish” (1608)
Third Fish. Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpus how he bounced and tumbled? the...
Adam Smith thinks many candidates for high political office act as if they are above the law (1759)
In many governments the candidates for the highest stations are above the law; and, if they can a...