The Law by Frederic Bastiat
Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman, and author. He did most of his writing during the years just before - and immediately following -- the Revolution of February 1848. This was the period when France was rapidly turning to complete socialism. As a Deputy to the Legislative Assembly, Mr. Bastiat was studying and explaining each socialist fallacy as it appeared. And he explained how socialism must inevitably degenerate into communism. But most of his countrymen chose to ignore his logic.
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Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy by Murray N. Rothbard
Murray Rothbard's 1984 analysis of modern American history as a great power struggle between economic elites, between the House of Morgan and the Rockefeller interests, culminates in the following conclusion: "the financial power elite can sleep well at night regardless of who wins in 1984." By the time you get there, the conclusion seems understated indeed, for what we have here is a sweeping and compressed history of 20th century politics from a power elite point of view. It represents a small and highly specialized sample of Rothbard's vast historical knowledge coming together with a lifetime devoted to methodological individualism in the social sciences. It appeared first in 1984, in the thick of the Reagan years, in a small financial publication called World Market Perspective. It was printed for a larger audience by the Center for Libertarian Studies in 1995, and appears in 2005 online for the first time.
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Washington's Farewell Address
Today, the United States is engaged in two hot wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and has more than 700 military bases around the world in more than 130 countries. The majority of both Republicans and Democrats, portray this as being in America’s best interests and of advancing “democracy” around the world, at the expense of the American people, our Constitution, and our way of life. America is a republic, not an empire.
America’s greatest president, George Washington, set America on the right path as a republic. In his famous Farewell Address in 1796, Washington laid out the only way to keep America’s free republic from sliding into an enslaved empire: non-intervention in other countries’ affairs.
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The Market for Liberty by Linda & Morris Tannehill
There was once a time when it was widely believed the world was flat and the sun revolved around the earth. Now we know better and most reasonable people have rejected these ideas. Similarly, most people have rejected the once widely accepted idea of slavery, and rightfully so. If you’re like most people, your government high school history classes probably taught you that slavery was abolished years ago. Government people wouldn’t lie to you, would they? “Government is an unnecessary evil and freedom is the best and most practical way of life.”
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