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Frederick Douglass on the Ballot Box, the Jury Box, and the Cartridge Box

“From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman, until he should cease...
As if in answer to Erasmus' prayer, Spencer does become a Philosopher of the Kitchen arguing that “if there is a wrong in respect of the taking of food (and drink) there must also be a right” (1897)

Except perhaps in agreeing that gluttony is to be reprobated and that the gourmet, as well as the...
Frédéric Bastiat, while pondering the nature of war, concluded that society had always been divided into two classes - those who engaged in productive work and those who lived off their backs (1850)

… [in the ancient world] a very small number of men managed to live without working, supported by...
Richard Cobden outlines his strategy of encouraging more people to acquire land and thus the right to vote in order to defeat the “landed oligarchy” who ruled England and imposed the “iniquity” of the Corn Laws (1845)

We have begun a new year, and it will not finish our work; but whether we win this year, the next...
Mises on how the “boon” of a tariff privilege is soon dissipated (1949)

It is important to realize that what those benefited by these measures (tariffs) consider an adva...
Augustin Thierry relates the heroic tale of the Kentishmen who defeat William the Conqueror and so are able to keep their ancient laws and liberties (1856)

They set themselves in armour bright, These mischiefs to prevent; With all the yeomen brave and b...
Israel Kirzner on the Individual and the Market

In a predominantly free society, individuals are in most respects at liberty to act as they choos...
Jean-Baptiste Say regards regulations which favor producers as a form of political privilege at the expence of the community (1803)

But personal interest is no longer a safe criterion, if individual interests are not left to coun...
J.B. Say argues that colonial slave labor is really quite profitable for the slave owners at the expense of the slaves and the home consumers (1817)

Indeed, this very exorbitance of profit shows, that the industry of the master is paid out of all...
Madame de Staël on how liberty is ancient and despotism is modern (1818)

It is of importance to repeat to those who are the advocates of rights founded on the past, that ...
David Ricardo on Taxation

Taxation under every form presents but a choice of evils; if it do not act on profit, or other so...
Guizot on how intellectual and political diversity and competition created a unique European civilization (1828)

How different from all this is the case as respects the civilization of modern Europe! Take ever ...
Sumner and the Conquest of the United States by Spain (1898)

During the last year the public has been familiarized with descriptions of Spain and of Spanish m...
Herbert Spencer worries that the violence and brutalities of football will make it that much harder to create a society in which individual rights will be mutually respected (1879)

A nature which generates international hatreds and intense desires for revenge–which breeds dueli...
Richard Cobden’s “I have a dream” speech about a world in which free trade is the governing principle (1846)

… I have never taken a limited view of the object or scope of this great principle. I have never ...
Sumner criticizes the competing vested interests and the role of legislators in the “new democratic State” (1887)

… when the old-fashioned theories of State interference are applied to the new democratic State, ...
Benjamin Constant on why the oppressed often prefer their chains to liberty (1815)

In the countries where these oppressive laws continue in undiminished rigor, it has been claimed,...
Frédéric Bastiat argues that socialism hides its true plunderous nature under a facade of nice sounding words like “fraternity” and “equality” (1850)

For all its theories about systems and (all) its efforts it appears that socialism, however indul...
Destutt de Tracy on society as “nothing but a succession of exchanges” (1817)

First, society is nothing but a succession of exchanges.In effect, let us begin with the first co...