It Is In War That The State

While Big-business Leaders And Firms Can Be Highly Productive, Servants Of Consumers In A Free Market Economy, They Are Also All Too Often, Seekers After Subsidies, Contracts, Privileges, Or Cartels Furnished By Big Government. Often, Business Lobbyists And Leaders Are The Sparkplugs For The Statist, Interventionist System.

The Libertarian Must Never Advocate Or Prefer A Gradual, As Opposed To An Immediate And Rapid, Approach To His Goal. For By Doing So, He Undercuts The Overriding Importance Of His Own Goals And Principles. And If He Himself Values His Own Goals So Lightly, How Highly Will Others Value Them.

The Policy Of Letting The Child 'do What He Likes' Is An Insidious One, Since The Children Are Encouraged To Continue Always At Their Original Superficial Level, Without Receiving Guidance In Study. Furthermore, The 'three Rs,' The Fundamental Tools, Are Neglected As Long As Possible, With The Result That The Child's Chance To Develop His Mind Is Greatly Retarded. The Policy Of Teaching Words Via Pictures Instead Of By The Alphabet Tends To Deprive The Young Child Of The Greatest Reasoning Tool Of All.

All Of The Services Commonly Thought To Require The State-from The Coining Of Money To Police Protection To The Development Of Law In Defense Of The Rights Of Person And Property-can Be And Have Been Supplied Far More Efficiently And Certainly More Morally By Private Persons. The State Is In No Sense Required By The Nature Of Man; Quite The Contrary.

Free-market Capitalism Is A Network Of Free And Voluntary Exchanges In Which Producers Work, Produce, And Exchange Their Products For The Products Of Others Through Prices Voluntarily Arrived At.