The horror of starvation no longer terrifies men living in a capitalist society. He who is able to work earns much more than is needed for bare sustenance, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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The rebels' overriding grievance was against the tax farmers and tax officials: "It is they who have forced [the peasants] to take up arms, changing their ploughshares for swords, in order to ask Your Majesty for justice or else to die like men."

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For the first time in the history of the world, I'm able to communicate with anyone in the world instantly, regardless of language. The great barrier of all of human history has been overcome, writes Jeffrey A. Tucker.

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In deciding to hire a worker, the employer does not ask himself what the worker gets as take-home wages. The only relevant question for him is, What is the total price I have to expend to secure the services of this worker?

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According to Louis XIV, a king is superhuman, a man who is above all and sees all and is the only one working for the "public" good, which is identical with his own, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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Man chooses ultimate ends first and then the means to attain them. These acts of choosing are determined by thoughts about which the natural sciences do not know how to give us any information, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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There is one small, seemingly insignificant detail that destroys the case against litter and the litterer. Litter can only take place in the public domain — never in the private domain, writes Walter Block.

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In a free market, an unemployed man has always chosen unemployment over working in a place, at a time, in a way, or for a wage that he dislikes, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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What manner of man was this, then, this grand bureaucrat who scorned the interests of mere individuals and merchants as petty and narrow, who presumed always to speak and act for the "national" and even "public" interest, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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