"Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live.

The Marxians love of democratic institutions was a stratagem only, a pious fraud for the deception of the masses. Within a socialist community there is no room left for freedom.
~ Ludwig von Mises ~












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