Garrett’s obit of Nock

11/15/2007 Mises Wire Mises.org

THE devouring state has lost a gadfly. The political masquerade will miss one who stood always on the curbstone casting derision and mockery upon it, and felt an urchin’s delight when a mummer touched his mask with an embarrassed gesture to make sure it had not slipped. And the few who love freedom, knowing what it is they love, are fewer by one.

From American Affairs, Volume VII, Number 4.

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