Robert Montgomery

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09/02/2009 Mises Daily Robert Montgomery

The blessings of liberty have been diffused in this land of ours to an unsurpassed degree, not because of government intervention but only because it was here that the torch of individual freedom was kindled and borne aloft.

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The Essence of Freedom

09/02/2009 Robert Montgomery

The pleaders for statism insist that while all-powerful government might be inherently bad under a despot or dictator, it can be a perfectly wholesome thing under democratic auspices with the principle of majority rule, writes Robert Montgomery. This

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