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Douglas French

True enough, while I would have met the qualifications of planning to go on for a secondary education, having a 3.0 GPA or better, and being a varsity letter winner, I wouldn't have stood a chance against the student athletes I'm considering this year, or any who have applied the last few years we've awarded the "Frenchie."

Floy Lilley

"Zamyatin's book was the first to be banned by the newly created censorship board."

Robert P. Murphy

"The Keynesian model can't capture the fact that during the boom period, society 'eats the seed corn' through malinvestment."

Murray N. Rothbard

The first step on this road to lesser government and greater freedom is to see the VAT for the swindle that it is, and to send it down to defeat.

Ludwig von Mises

"Nothing has been easier than to treat with contempt all the legislative provisions for the protection of the monetary standard. All governments, even the weakest and most incapable, have managed it without difficulty."

"We are in a frightening state of affairs, where the government feels the need to commit acts of aggression, through the use of tariffs and quotas, as means of 'economic defense'."

Albert Jay Nock

"Class interest led him almost always to the side of the smaller political unit against encroachment by the larger, because the greater the power of local self-government, as a rule, the better for the producer and the worse for the exploiter."

T. Hunt Tooley

It is time to challenge head on the nonsense of the Phillips Curve, Keynesianism, and inflationary theft, and all the rest.

Murray N. Rothbard

He could not see also that these producers did not create such needs, but instead were fulfilling them and thereby removing the want and pain of their customers and adding to their happiness and standard of living. If he had gone that far, he would have realized the nonsense of his dog-eat-dog, or what would now be called his "zero-sum-game" view of the marketplace.

Art Carden

At this point it no doubt seems like economists are the wet blankets of the world, but one of the most important implications of careful economic reasoning is that often, your schemes and programs will not just be ineffective, they will be positively destructive.