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Libertystory.net |
Ideas, people and events in the history of liberty |
"Where
liberty dwells, |
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Great thinkers |
| Historian Lord Acton's epic warning that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" |
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| French
journalist Frederic Bastiat,
who saw the evils of communism before Marx and Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto
in 1848 |
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| Ludwig von Mises, who defied collectivist trends and developed a comprehensive vision for a free society |
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| How Thomas Paine, a failed corset
maker who became a passionate pamphleteer, inspired the
American Revolution |
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| Scotsman Adam Smith, who explained how individuals promote the common good by pursuing their own interests in free markets |
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| Russian-born novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand's inspiring moral defense of individualism and liberty |
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Life
and times of Murray N. Rothbard, who showed why private individuals can
do just about everything that needs to be done |
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Copyright (C) 2000 by Jim Powell |
