• "Well written, well researched, and the thesis put forth is well argued.... Woods has opened up an area of historical analysis that should invite further study."
    -Journal of American History

  • "During these times that challenge our freedoms there is no one more qualified to make U.S. history relevant to the fight against big government than Thomas Woods."
    -Barry Goldwater Jr.
    Former Member of Congress

  • "I strongly recommend Woods's work."
    -The Honorable Ron Paul,
    U.S. House of Representatives

  • "Written with great clarity and fluency, making the complex philosophical and theological concepts approachable."
    -Journal of American Studies

  • "A must-read."
    -Barron's

  • "An excellent reading source for anyone interested in financial markets, and much more so for anyone interested in learning about capitalism without all the misinterpretations being thrown about in the financial media."
    -Asia Times

  • "Provocative, well-written, and deserves to be read."
    -Catholic Historical Review

  • "An engaging and important contribution to scholarship on the history of American Catholicism."
    -Journal of the Historical Society

  • "Woods and [co-author Kevin] Gutzman appeal to both left and right in this constitutionalist jeremiad…. The authors' exegeses of the Constitution and court decisions, heavy on original intent arguments, are lucid and telling."
    -Publishers Weekly

  • "A marvelous read. Every chapter taught me something new and unexpected."
    -Tom Bethell, senior editor,
    The American Spectator

  • "The hottest book today is Meltdown, by my friend Tom Woods."
    -Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst,
    FOX News Channel

  • "Should be required reading."
    -Economic Affairs (London)

  • "Woods, one of the best classical liberal [libertarian] scholars of his generation, has once more placed us in his debt with this lucid and tightly argued book."
    -David Gordon, The Mises Review

  • "Tom Woods is one of my dearest allies in the struggle against wrong-headed and dangerous economic policy."
    -Peter Schiff

From an Orwellian America to a Free America

Here I am last weekend in Seattle, assessing the state of things in front of a big, fired-up crowd. UPDATE: Here’s a YouTube, taken by someone in the audience. Unfortunately, the official video from public TV has proven too unreliable. If you click on the screen you’ll go to the main page for this video, which contains links to parts 2 and 3.

  • Amanojack

    Excellent speech, Tom, as usual. I find your style an argument emphasis to be the most convincing way to take down anti-free-market notions.

    Over on reddit.com there are constantly a few libertarians trying to debate everyone else, but they are woefully unequipped. All someone has to do is bring up Robber Barons and the libertarians don’t know how to proceed. Your argument about how Carnegie made steel 100 times cheaper, which to loosely quote you in one of your Youtube videos, made “things like eating possible for millions of people,” goes to show how easy the debate ought to be to win.

    And yet, to quote Howard S. Katz in his blog post Strategy for Victory today, “The pro-liberty movement in America here in the early 21st century is not essentially different from the pro-liberty movement in the late 18th or early 19th centuries. But those people won, and we cannot seem to punch our way out of a paper bag.” People like you, and of course Ron Paul, are changing this.

    As the power of the historical argument has been stymied by the distorted picture of history in government schools, I like your method of presenting clear, indisputable facts that make it obvious even to the everyday person that there is something fishy about what they’ve been taught.

    In line with that reasoning, I’d like to introduce Mr. Katz’s blog post, which uses historical arguments to expound a strategy for victory for the pro-liberty movement (5-25-09 post at thegoldbugnet.blogspot.com/2009/05/strategy-for-victory-i.html). I feel his little essay dovetails nicely with your speech and Ron Paul’s subsequent message in the second half of the video.

  • jacek s

    What a great speech, I wish I could hear similar in my country

  • hahnportland

    Thank you for the excellent speech on Friday night. I loved your comment about the fact that the toothpaste will not got back into the tube. My husband thoroughly enjoyed meeting you.

  • The Ghost

    God bless Tom Woods, Robert Murphy, Walter Block, Lew Rockwell and everyone at LvMI.

    Don’t look now, but Murray is smiling. ;-)

  • Jessica

    It was great to meet you and your speech was very inspiring – between you and Ron Paul that night, I actually felt like I can do something to make this nation better. Can’t wait to hear more of your thoughts!

  • http://www.josiahgarber.com/blog Josiah Garber

    Thanks for speaking the truth!

  • http://41659 mikael

    thank you for an enlightening speech.