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Robert Higgs has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in…
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In regard to the so-called social contract, I have often had occasion to protest that I haven't even seen the contract, much…
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Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical,…
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...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery.
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When American presidents prepare for foreign wars, they lie.
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It is a sound interpretive rule...that anything that cannot be accomplished except with the aid of threats or the actual exercise of…
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Voting, the be all and end all of modern democratic politicians, has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else.…
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In U.S. history, war has served as an important diversionary tactic, causing the people at large to shift their attention away from…
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