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Friedrich A. Hayek

Hayek relentlessly scrutinizes and exposes the weak and patchwork structure of Keynes's theoretical arguments and then dismantles it brick by brick, leaving nothing standing.

William Graham Sumner

He is the man who wants alcoholic liquors for any honest purpose whatsoever, who would use his liberty without abusing it, who would occasion no public question, and trouble nobody at all.

Henry Hazlitt

The Left has long used literature as a way of pushing opposition to "the bourgeoisie"—or its modern variants such as "the patriarchy."  

Peter G. Klein

The core concepts of contemporary Austrian economics—human action, means and ends, subjective value, marginal analysis, methodological individualism—all flow from Menger's pathbreaking work.

Ralph Raico

Churchill was from first to last a Man of the State, of the welfare state and of the warfare state. Churchill never had a principle he did not in the end betray.

Ludwig von Mises

If we wish to gain insight into the essence of nationality, we must proceed not from the nation but from the individual. What is the national aspect of the individual person and what determines his belonging to a nation?

Albert Jay Nock

"If you give the State power to do something for you, you give it an exact equivalent of power to do something to you."

Richard Cantillon

It is a common idea that an increased quantity of money in an economy decreases the rate of interest. This idea is not always true or accurate.

Jeffrey M. Herbener

The fascist form of interventionism in America was built on the rump of state corporatism that emerged during the Progressive Era and the experience of state planning during the First World War.