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Cliches of Socialism Number 26 by Leonard Read
“I prefer security to freedom”
The Law by Frederic Bastiat
“The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it!The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind…
Cliches of Socialism Number 40 by Paul L. Poirot
“Without legislation, we’d still have child labor and sweatshop conditions.”
Religion: The Foundation for the Free Society by Edmund A. Opitz
In this book, Opitz explores the way in which religious belief is not only compatible with the free society, but is an essential part of its history and operation. The book starts with the “religious roots” of liberty, from the…
The Free Market and its Enemies: Pseudo-Science, Socialism, and Inflation by Ludwig Von Mises
In the summer of 1951, Mises, as he did every year, gave a series of lectures at the Foundation for Economic Education. Bettina Bien Greaves took word for word shorthand notes at those lectures and they are transcribed in this…
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