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Mike Reid

No group of people has been subjected to more absurd state "protection" than India's Jarawa tribe.

Peter C. Earle

If the strange and little-known case of Moresnet acts as our guide, we must conclude that statelessness is not only possible but beneficial to progress.

Claude Frédéric Bastiat

If the secret wishes of each producer were realized, the world would retrograde rapidly toward barbarism.

David Gordon

Kenneth McIntyre has given us a deeply thoughtful and erudite account of one of the greatest 20th-century historians, Hebert Butterfield. I should like to concentrate on an aspect of Butterfield's thought likely to be of

David Gordon

Whatever the failings of this book, its author has a sense of humor. Peikoff writes of his unusual name for his main hypothesis,

David Gordon

A powerful state, Butterfield said, will endeavor to portray itself as the champion of the good, locked in battle with the forces of evil.

Murray N. Rothbard

During the havoc and upheaval of the French Revolution, the communist creed again popped up, but this time the major emphasis was a secular context.

Gary North

Schumpeter said that the USSR "would be a good laboratory." Weber responded, "A laboratory heaped with human corpses!"

Peter C. Earle
Krugman: “I am not a defender of the economic policies of the emperor Diocletian. Let’s just make that clear.” Ron Paul: “That’s exactly what you’re defending.”