If a prominent politician hires a hall to make a speech, stay away; the absent audience will bring him to a realization of his nothingness, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966).

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It is a great pleasure for me to present this book by my colleague Philipp Bagus, writes Jesús Huerta de Soto.

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To young Menger, the cityscape still appeared as that of "old Vienna": enclosed on three sides by a city wall and moat, writes Eugen-Maria Schulak and Herbert Unterköfler.

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The foremost aim of despotic government is to prevent any innovations that could endanger its own supremacy. Its very nature pushes it toward extreme conservatism, the tendency to retain what is, no matter how desirable for the welfare of the people a change might be, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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John Wanamaker was the Gilded Age genius who pioneered the department store, the posted single price for goods, the money-back guarantee, and the practice of giving away free products as a way to promote a business. He believed that commerce would save the world, writes Orison Swett Marden.

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Throughout history, material privation and chronic insecurity were the norm, writes Robert Higgs.

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You will not affect the election, but you might die in a car crash trying, writes Mark Brandly.

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Before the civil war, there were some grounds for saying that, at least in theory, our government was a free one — that it rested on consent, writes Lysander Spooner (1808–1887).

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Government planners developed a particular aesthetic obsession: they were frustrated by the untidy complexity of real human societies, writes Mike Reid.

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Social justice actually refers to an intention to use force to acquire one's desires. Not to earn desirable goods by rational thought and action, production and voluntary exchange, but to go in there and forcibly take goods from those who can supply them, writes Ben O'Neill.

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