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John Bright on war as all the horrors, atrocities, crimes, and sufferings of which human nature on this globe is capable (1853)
What is war? I believe that half the people that talk about war have not the slightest idea of wh...
John Millar argues that as a society becomes wealthier domestic freedom increases, even to the point where slavery is thought to be pernicious and economically inefficient (1771)
It may in general be observed, that according as men have made greater progress in commerce and t...
Knox on how the people during wartime are cowered into submission and pay their taxes “without a murmur” (1795)
But such is the effect of political artifice, under the management of court sycophants, that the ...
Plucknett contrasts the flexibility and adaptability of customary law with the rigidity and remoteness of state legislation (1956)
The middle ages seem to show us bodies of custom of every description, developing and adapting th...
William Graham Sumner on the political corruption which is “jobbery” (1884)
Jobbery is any scheme which aims to gain, not by the legitimate fruits of industry and enterprise...
J.M. Keynes reflected on that “happy age” of international commerce and freedom of travel that was destroyed by the cataclysm of the First World War (1920)
… any man of capacity or character at all exceeding the average, into the middle and upper classe...
Auberon Herbert on compulsory taxation as the “citadel” of state power (1885)
There can be no true condition of rest in society, there can be no perfect friendliness amongst m...
James Mackintosh on the relationship between justice and utility (1791)
Justice is expediency, but it is expediency, speaking by general maxims, into which reason has co...
John Millar on liberty as an unintended consequence of a struggle between tyrants (1787)
Whoever enquires into the circumstances in which these great charters were procured, and into the...
William Fox on the hypocrisy of those who do not want to be dependent on foreign trade (1844)
What is the career of the man whose possessions are in broad acres (the protectionist land owners...
Adam Smith debunks that idea that when it comes to public debt “we owe it to ourselves” (1776)
In the payment of the interest of the publick debt, it has been said, it is the right hand which ...
Destutt de Tracy on the mutually beneficial nature of exchange (1817)
(A)n exchange is a transaction in which the two contracting parties both gain. Whenever I make an...
James Mill on Who are to watch the watchmen? (1835)
This has ever been the great problem of Government. The powers of Government are of necessity pla...
John Wade exposes the system of political corruption in England (1835)
The object of the Editor at first was, and now has been, to show the manifold abuses of an unjust...
J.S. Mill in “The Subjection of Women” argued that every form of oppression seems perfectly natural to those who live under it (1869)
Some will object, that a comparison cannot fairly be made between the government of the male sex ...
James Mill on the Nature of Those Who Govern
Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whet...
Ludwig Lachmann and the free market as a leveling process in the distribution of wealth (1956)
The market process is thus seen to be a leveling process. In a market economy a process of redist...
Adam Smith on who colleges and universities ACTUALLY benefit
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the s...
Benjamin Constant and the Freedom of the Press (1815)
If you once grant the need to repress the expression of opinion, either the State will have to ac...
Richard Cobden on how free trade would unite mankind in the bonds of peace (1850)
But when I advocated Free Trade, do you suppose that I did not see its relation to the present qu...