By Dr Richard M. Ebeling
Read the article published on The Cobden Centre here.
There has been no greater threat to life, liberty, and property throughout
the ages than government. Even the most violent and brutal private individuals
have been able to inflict only a mere fraction of the harm and destruction that
have been caused by the use of power by political authorities.
The pursuit of legal plunder, to use Frédéric Bastiat’s well-chosen phrase,
has been behind all the major economic and political disasters that have
befallen mankind throughout history.
Read the article published on The Cobden Centre here.
