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Marxism was never a good idea "in theory." As Mises explained, it is a mess both in theory and in practice. 

Ludwig von Mises

"Different people and the same people at different times value the same objective facts in a different way."

Walter Block

Pundits use the language of war and strife to depict economic relationships, but economics addresses mutual benefit, or positive-sum games.

Martin Stefunko

An overlooked volume of essays deals with Rothbard's monetary thought. Martin Stefunko regards it as mixed but valuable. 

Robert P. Murphy

Notwithstanding its endorsement by Mises, many modern Austrians reject the notion of consumer sovereignty as an inaccurate political metaphor. 

Murray N. Rothbard

The noble task of Revisionism is to de-bamboozle: to penetrate the fog of lies and deception of the State and its Court Intellectuals.

Robert P. Murphy

Mises stressed the primacy of consumer preferences in the determination of precisely which kinds of goods will be produced with society's scarce resources. 

Murray N. Rothbard

The English Levellers were the world's first self-consciously libertarian mass movement.

Garet Garrett

Truman, without consent or knowledge of Congress, declared war on Korea. Congress condoned his usurpation of its exclusive constitutional power.