We are witnessing a great tragedy: more and more people being driven by indignation about the suppression of political and intellectual freedom joining the forces which make its ultimate suppression inevitable, writes Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992).

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Those Americans who twice succeeded in doing away with a central bank were aware of the dangers; but they failed to see that the evils they fought were present in every kind of government interference with banking, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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When the enemy is at the gates, the individual abdicates his self-reliance and places himself unreservedly under the direction of the captain; he gives up his freedom in order to attain freedom. Or so he thinks, writes Frank Chodorov (1887–1966).

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Carl Menger, from his classic treatise, on the origins of the means of payment.

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To the individualist Lao Tzu, government, with its "laws and regulations more numerous than the hairs of an ox," was a vicious oppressor of the individual, and "more to be feared than fierce tigers."

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I think of Ayn's happiness and expectation, I think of the pain and bitter disillusion that scarred the rest of her life — and something inside me twists in pain for her, and tears stand in my eyes, writes Barbara Branden.

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A money-substitute can be embodied either in a banknote or in a demand deposit with a bank subject to check ("checkbook money" or deposit currency), provided the bank is prepared to exchange the note or the deposit daily free of charge against money proper, writes Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973).

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When we disapprove of government support, we are supposed to disapprove of the thing itself whose support is discussed. Actually we desire to see those activities seeking their own reward, writes Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850).

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Ah, the greens. They're not just treehuggers anymore. They've been browbeating us to recycle, eat soy, save energy, drive less, ride the bus, and a thousand other ways to "act local" for many years now, writes Tyler A. Watts.

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Although Aristotle, in the Greek tradition, scorned moneymaking and was scarcely a partisan of laissez-faire, he set forth a trenchant argument in favor of private property and delivered a cogent attack on communism, writes Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995).

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