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Joey Clark

The purpose of this postal monopoly was to enable officials to read the letters of private citizens.

Herbert Spencer

Bear constantly in mind the truth that the aim of your discipline should be to produce a self-governing being; not to produce a being to be governed by others.

Thomas J. DiLorenzo

Not surprisingly, the city government of Delray Beach is apparently doing everything it can to
    drive these young entrepreneurs out of business.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Libertarianism, too, is beautiful. Not aesthetically, of course, but logically, as a simple and elegant social theory.

Finbar Feehan-Fitzgerald

A real-life example of concurrent currencies circulating absent any legal restrictions would contain some heuristic value. The real-life example is Somalia.

Roberta A. Modugno

      The first-ever libertarians were the Levellers, an English political movement active in the seventeenth century.

John P. Cochran

If banks and other financial institutions should not be too big to fail, neither should the Fed.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

In terms of difficulty level and subject matter, the following program makes sense.

Patrick Barron

All that Detroit really needs is economic freedom and secure property rights. Give Detroit its freedom from all manner of government, including the federal  government.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

There is an intuitive sense according to which the first user of a good holds moral priority over latecomers.