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11 quotes by Thomas Woods

Thomas E. "Tom" Woods, Jr. (born August 1, 1972) is an American historian, political analyst, and author. Woods is a New York Times best-selling author and has published eleven books. He has written extensively on the subjects of American history, contemporary politics, and economics. Woods identifies as a libertarian and a proponent of the Austrian school of economics. He operates LibertyClassroom.com, a pay-for-access educational website that...
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Communism brought out the worst in human nature and crippled people's ability or ambition to participate in a market economy.

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Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of... →

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Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as... →

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Government has a habit of blaming the private sector for its own failings while taking credit for advances we in fact owe to the private sector.

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Nullification is the Jeffersonian idea that the states of the American Union must judge the constitutionality of the acts of their agent, the federal... →

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One of the market's virtues, and the reason it enables so much peaceful interaction and cooperation among such a great variety of peoples, is... →

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That human beings seek their own well-being and that of those close to them is not an especially provocative discovery. What is important is that... →

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The alleged lessons of history that the traditional version of American history would have us absorb are not particularly subtle: Government is the... →

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Understanding the true causes of the Depression, as well as the real economic record of the United States in the 1930s, is an essential ingredient in... →

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The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.

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The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize... →

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