MISES AND LIBERTY

[The keynote address at the Mises Institute’s new building dedication in Auburn, Alabama, June 6, 1998.]

AN AMERICAN CLASSICAL LIBERALISM

[This talk was delivered at the Scott L. Probasco Chair of Free Enterprise Seminar on Classical Liberalism, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, June 6, 1996.]

ROCKWELL-DOHERTY INTERVIEW

[An interview by Brian Doherty which appeared in the May 12, 1999 issue of SpintechMag.com as “Libertarianism and the Old Right.”]

Doherty: How and under what circumstances did you first become interested in political philosophy/work? Was it of an individualist/libertarian orientation from the beginning?

READING FOR LIBERTY

As this is a collection of speeches, I’ve avoided footnoting in this volume, but all quotations have been checked for reliability. The quotations from Ludwig von Mises are from Socialism, Liberalism, Human Action, and Nation, State, and Economy, all of which are online (a Google search reveals precise sourcing information), as well as Notes and Recollections and Omnipotent Government. Quotations from Murray N.

“Socialism in distant lands collapsed, and it will collapse in the US too if this book gets a wide hearing. Omnipotent government has rarely faced as fierce an intellectual opponent.”

—— PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, HOOVER INSTITUTION

“Like great American oratory from the 18th and 19th centuries, this book of speeches on economics and public affairs is capable of inspiring an entire generation.”

—— THOMAS J. DILORENZO, LOYOLA COLLEGE IN MARYLAND

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

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Tu ne cede malis,
sed contra audentior ito.

Do not give in to evil,
but proceed ever more boldly against it.

—Ludwig von Mises’s childhood motto,
taken from Virgil

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