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Yesteryear

by Caro Claire Burke

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Too Dumb to Fail: How the GOP Went from the Party of Reagan to the Party of Trump by Matt K. Lewis

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“invisible hand,” a metaphor that suggested that competition and the pursuit of self-interest organically leads to salutary social benefits.

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“When rights become merely legal claims attached to interests and preferences, the stage is set for political and social conflict.”
― David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

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“The people who benefit from the existing system won’t willingly downsize government even if all the customers desert it.”
― David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

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“To hurt in any degree the interest of any one order of citizens, for no other purpose but to promote that of some other, is evidently contrary to that justice and equality of treatment which the sovereign owes to all the different orders of his subjects.”40 Changes”
― Timothy Sandefur, The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law

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“every government intervention in the marketplace tends to reduce wealth and the overall standard of living.”
― David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

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“Every state and national capitol should have a sign on the door: Stop me before I legislate again.”
― David Boaz, The Libertarian Mind: A Manifesto for Freedom

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