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If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conse...

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Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom, Instead, they depr...

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Thomas SzaszCruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted

If a man loses his money through unwise market speculation or by playing the horses, he has been pun...

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They would tell you that governments could not manage things as economically as private individuals;...

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I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US ...

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Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adher...

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Christopher HitchensPrepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports

Sometimes I fantasize about the US head of state as a super-lazy, super-moral libertarian despot and...

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Chuck KlostermanBut What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of huma...

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The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. A...

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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and li...

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George OrwellThe Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell

With a [democratic] government anyone in principle can become a member of the ruling class or even t...

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Hans-Hermann HoppeDemocracy--The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy

Let's be clear: unless I have profoundly misunderstood its position, I pretty much despise American ...

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The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A sla...

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The people in charge can always justify doing terrible things in the name of the greater good. A sla...

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…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Re...

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Jonah GoldbergLiberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as ...

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When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social ph...

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If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the ...

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More dangerous than bayonets and cannon are the weapons of the mind.

It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, becau...

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If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be w...

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Scratch a “libertarian” these days, and you will find...a leftist.

Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.