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Leonard E. Read
These students of liberty have not yet learned to answer honestly, “I don’t know; I never will know; no one will ever know.”
Gary Galles

If there were a top-ten list for how many words someone had devoted to the cause of liberty, Leonard Read would surely be on it. 

Brian LaSorsa
The four institutions that people see as the savior were all born in sin.
Ryan P. Long

The government creates a demand for these services out of thin air: the existence of ambassadors is what leads to the work done by ambassadors. They do not take their services to market to sell them to anyone who happens to be a willing buyer.

Ralph Reiland

Today's crop of central planners and big-spending politicians could learn a thing or two about economics from Henry Hazlitt.

Douglas French

The movie depicts individuals grappling with the unwinding of a bubble and the inevitable fallout that takes place.

Clifford F. Thies

The belief that North America suffered a mass extinction is simply a matter of politically correct multiculturalism.

William L. Anderson

They thought they could create a world that could circumvent the long-held laws of economics simply by dismissing these laws as illegitimate.

Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt brought the English-speaking world's attention to these remarkable works.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Carl Menger's Principles of Economics was written in 1871 during the dawn of a great economic transition. Steel displaced iron, the middle class grew as never before, and average life spans increased as never before in human history. Menger's brilliant book on economics seemed to speak to the new age of market-driven prosperity for Europe and the world.