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Murray N. Rothbard

The standard reply of the Fed and its partisans is that any such measures, however marginal, would encroach on the Fed's independence from politics.

Ralph Raico

It was in Europe—and above all, America — that human beings first achieved per capita economic growth over a long period of time.

Ludwig von Mises

Civilization is an achievement of the 'bourgeois' spirit, not of the spirit of war and conquest.

Percy L. Greaves, Jr.

When anything goes wrong, from a train wreck to a change in stock market prices, the craven crowds always clamor for just one more law.

Murray N. Rothbard

There is nowhere Marx is fuzzier or shakier than in the concept of historical materialism, the key to the inevitable dialectic of history.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

Thanks to plea bargains and endless lists of new laws, American prisons are filled with innocent people.

Bruce L. Benson

Our modern reliance on government to make law and establish order is not the historical norm.

Adam Young

Many young idealists moved to Stalin's Soviet Union expecting to find a paradise. They often ended up in labor camps or as victims in various purges.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

"Consumerism" seems like a big problem until the market supplies an essential good or service we badly need.

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

Martin Van Buren favored peace, freedom, and decentralization. Thus, most historians are biased against him.