Freedom Quote by Eric Robert Morse

“England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“The history of the last half century is accordingly in large measure a history of financial titans, whose methods were not scrutinized with too…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“it was the wars of the twentieth century that wiped away the past to create the illusion that capitalism had been structurally transformed.”

— Thomas Piketty

“History fancies itself linear - but yields to a cyclical temptation.”

— Criss Jami

...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance…

— John Maynard Keynes

“We cry shame on the feudal baron who forbade the peasant to turn a clod of earth unless he surrendered to his lord a…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

“So why has this potentially self-destructive system of economic arrangements lasted? Probably because of habits of restraint, honesty and moderation which accompanied its emergence.”

— Tony Judt

“As such, the usual pattern of interaction between a critical juncture and existing institutional differences leading to further institutional and economic divergence played out…

— Daron Acemoğlu

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we…

— C. L. R. James

“...which recall(s) a moment in time when raw excess made them a casual aristocracy, apart from the rest of the world.”

— Andrea Lee

“Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequence occurred between the fall of the Roman…

— James Hannam

“In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great event which has not promoted…

— Alexis de Tocqueville