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Ludwig von Mises

Man gives to other men in order to receive from them. Mutuality emerges. Man serves in order to be served.

Ralph Raico

Roosevelt needed the war and wanted the war, and the war came.

Murray N. Rothbard

Washington set out to transform a people's army, uniquely suited for a libertarian revolution, into another orthodox and despotically ruled statist force after the familiar European model.

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

In Human Action, Mises had shown that economic analysis leads directly to laissez faire conclusions. He demonstrated that government intervention entails consequences that are unwanted even from the point of view of the champions of these interventions.

Murray N. Rothbard

What we really have to combat is all statism, and not just the Communist brand.

Ludwig von Mises

Every worldview and every ideology that is not entirely committed to asceticism must recognize that society is the great means to earthly ends.

Murray N. Rothbard

One popular charge against anarchism is that it "means chaos." This is certainly debatable, and no anarchist ever deliberately wanted to bring about chaos. 

Murray N. Rothbard

Rothbard's obituary for Mises: "Words cannot express our great sense of loss: of … this courageous and lifelong fighter for human freedom; … this noble inspiration to us all."

Hans F. Sennholz

Few people are aware of what the Federal Reserve System, acting on behalf of the U.S. Government, is doing to their money, writes Hans Sennholz.

David Gordon

You can only read so many books in a lifetime. How tragic it would be if among these the subject of liberty itself were neglected?