If Henry VIII knew his history, he might have learned from the earlier Henry and been a better money manager.

The Founders would be among the first to tell you they did not possess all the answers to everything. But they were confident that a free people would eventually come up with better answers than corrupt elites who worship power.

Banning the transport of stuff that people desire is much easier said than done and may well produce more victims than the stuff itself.

Yes, unbelievable as it may be to small children, governments and double standards go together like peanut butter and jelly.

My speech for the Free Market Road Show conference in Podgorica, Montenegro — May 2021. In the video, the speech begins at about 6:50.

For more than five decades as a journalist, George Schuyler eloquently assailed Jim Crow, Big Government, and socialism.

Liberty is an environment in which everyone makes choices about his life without fearing the initiation of force against him.

Edith Hamilton: “If men insisted on being free from the burden of a life that was self-dependent and also responsible for the common good, they would cease to be free at all. Responsibility was the price every man must pay for freedom. It was to be had on no other terms.”

A society can either create wealth or plunder and redistribute it. Which side are you on?

A good leader does not consider himself God and does not try to replace the personal plans of individuals with his own governmental plan but must realize that prosperous economies exist not because arrogant civil servants set them up, but because, thanks to consumers and risk-taking, private entrepreneurs have been allowed the freedom to thrive.

In the midst of the Great Depression, many Americans put common sense aside and accepted Franklin Roosevelt’s beguiling promises. But decades later, we know that those promises were rooted in politics, not economics, and that the New Deal was nothing more than a series of expensive blunders.

The principle that ends justify means is one where the ethics of individualists and collectivists collide, F.A. Hayek saw.

Lots of great info in this video interview on ancient Rome and lessons for today — recorded in April 2021

Get your history of Jim Crow from people who know what they’re talking about, such as Jerrold Packard and Bill Steigerwald and Ray Sprigle, not from politicians more interested in manipulating you than informing you.

Even the most successful people confront the specter of failure. The question is can we learn from it.

You owe it to yourself on May Day, and every day, to know what makes the difference between wealth and poverty for the workers of the world.

When people have little or no economic understanding, they embrace impractical “pie-in-the-sky” solutions to problems. They may think that whatever the government gives must really be “free,” and that all it has to do to foster prosperity is to command it.

An 11-minute audio podcast in the “Rule of Law” series of Lee Habeeb’s “Our American Stories,” based on articles of mine on the Wilson administration.

The first communist state enslaved millions and bedeviled the world until its collapse in 1991.

A fundamental rule of influence is this: You cannot impart what you don’t possess!