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"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert

"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker

"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison

"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman

Showing posts with label William Graham Sumner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Graham Sumner. Show all posts
Monday, March 03, 2025

Let's Not "Run after a Share in the Trouble"

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Of course “principles,” phrases, and catch-words are always invented to bolster up any policy which anybody wants to recommend. So in this c...
Friday, December 20, 2024

TGIF: The Unfortunately Forgotten Sumner

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Some things haven't changed since 1883. In that year Yale University Professor William Graham Sumner, the anti-imperialist laissez-fair...
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Friday, November 01, 2024

TGIF: Election Reflections

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The  history of the human race is one long story of attempts by certain persons and classes to obtain control of the power of the State, so ...
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Friday, April 30, 2010

TGIF: Financial Regulation and the "Money Power"

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In one of his essays criticizing inflationary free-silver proposals in the late nineteenth century, the great laissez-faire champion Wi...
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Father, grandfather, writer, editor, pipe smoker, free thinker, libertarian market anarchist, grouser, flosser. Author of six books, including "America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Reconsidered"; "Coming to Palestine"; and "What Social Animals Owe to Each Other."
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