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Guyot on the protectionist tyranny (1906)

I could have given this book a grandiose title—“The Protectionist Tyranny,” or “The Protectionist...
John Ramsay McCulloch argues that smuggling is “wholly the result of vicious commercial and financial legislation” and that it could be ended immediately by abolishing this legislation (1899)

This crime, which occupies so prominent a place in the criminal legislation of all modern states,...
Louis Wolowski and Pierre Émile Levasseur argue that Property is “the fruit of human liberty” and that Violence and Conquest have done much to disturb this natural order (1884)

Property, made manifest by labor, participates in the rights of the person whose emanation it is;...
The Earl of Shaftesbury relates the story of an unscrupulous glazier who gives the rowdy town youths a football so they will smash windows in the street and thus drum up business (1737)

So have I known a crafty Glazier, in time of Frost, procure a Football, to draw into the Street t...
Tocqueville on the 1848 Revolution in Paris (1851)

One thing was not ridiculous, but really ominous and terrible; and that was the appearance of Par...
James Mill on the “sinister interests” of those who wield political power (1825)

We have seen already, that if one man has power over others placed in his hands, he will make use...
Franz Oppenheimer argues that there are two fundamentally opposed ways of acquiring wealth: the “political means” through coercion, and the “economic means” through peaceful trade (1922)

There are two fundamentally opposed means whereby man, requiring sustenance, is impelled to obtai...
Spooner on the “natural right to labor” and to acquire all one honestly can (1846)

Each man has the natural right to acquire all he honestly can, and to enjoy and dispose of all th...
Herbert Spencer makes a distinction between the “militant type of society” based upon violence and the “industrial type of society” based upon peaceful economic activity (1882)

Whence it follows that the desire "not to be dependent on foreigners' is one appropriate to the m...
John C. Calhoun notes that taxation divides the community into two great antagonistic classes, those who pay the taxes and those who benefit from them (1850)

… it must necessarily follow, that some one portion of the community must pay in taxes more than ...
Alexis de Tocqueville stood up in the Constituent Assembly to criticize socialism as a violation of human nature, property rights, and individual liberty (1848)

Now, a third and final trait, one which, in my eyes, best describes socialists of all schools and...
Yves Guyot warns that a new ruling class of managers and officials will emerge in the supposedly “classless” socialist society of the future (1908)

There will be at least two classes, one consisting of officials to distribute the burdens and the...
J.S. Mill was convinced he was living in a time when he would experience an explosion of classical liberal reform because “the spirit of the age” had dramatically changed (1831)

A change has taken place in the human mind; a change which, being effected by insensible gradatio...
Condy Raguet argues that governments cannot create wealth by means of legislation and that individuals are better judges of the best way to use their capital and labor than governments (1835)

That individuals are better judges of the most advantageous mode of employing their labour and ca...
Yves Guyot accuses all those who seek Protection from foreign competition of being “Socialists” (1893)

Yes, large and small proprietors alike, those of you are Socialists, who beg for customs duties. ...
John Taylor and the rhetoric of liberty and tyranny (1814)

Mr. Adams has cautioned us against the abuse of political phrases, whilst he reiterates the expre...
Yves Guyot on the violence and lawlessness inherent in socialism (1910)

Socialist policy is a permanent menace to the liberty and security of citizens, and cannot theref...
Bentham on how “the ins” and “the outs” lie to the people in order to get into power (1843)

By the name of fallacy, it is common to designate any argument employed, or topic suggested, for ...
William Graham Sumner on free trade as another aspect of individual liberty (1888)

Now free trade is not a theory in any sense of the word. It is only a mode of liberty; one form o...
Leonard Read on Ludwig von Mises as the economic dictator of the U.S. (1971)

The final question was posed at midnight: “Professor Mises, I agree with you that we are headed f...