Thomas Jefferson once said, “I cannot live without books.” Indeed, he owned about 6,000 of them, which he sold to Congress in 1815.

A testament to a friendship that hopefully will endure forever.

The pigeons in the picture got it right. Marx was a detestable fraud and he should have listened to his mother.

Matters of belief and conscience should belong exclusively to the individual and his Maker, not legislators and potentates.

He was arrested and interrogated by the highest-ranking officer in the British Army, General William Howe, who got utterly nothing out of him but name, rank and an honest account of his purpose. For their patriotism, his last words remain unsurpassed. Spanish version here: https://informeorwell.com/opinion/un-heroe-que-los-estadounidenses-jamas-deben-olvidar-nathan-hale/.

Hayek firmly rejected the modern leftist obsession with “social justice.” Redistribution schemes based on outcome-focused equality ignore the process by which outcomes arise. Inequality, per se, is not a problem. The focus should not be on the outcome, but on the process. Photo: Hayek (left) and Mises (right).

I wish I could go back in a time machine to that emotional moment at Fraunces Tavern on December 4, 1783.