A podcast that investigates the lives & philosophies of thinkers throughout history who argued for a freer world. Hosted by @PaulMeany2 from @libertarianism.
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21 Apr 2022
Václav Havel's life was dedicated to opposing what he called post-totalitarianism, a new, more efficient breed of tyranny. To defeat post-totalitarianism he followed the advice of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, to live in truth.
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Portraits of Liberty retweeted
26 Apr 2022
"There are no tyrants where there are no slaves." -José Rizal
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Portraits of Liberty retweeted
22 Jun 2022
By the age of 70, Hazlitt had estimated he had written some 10,000 editorials, articles, and columns, plus a dozen books—six more followed later.
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Portraits of Liberty retweeted
20 Apr 2022
Sophie Scholl did not stand up for some grand or utopian vision of the world. She stood for an elementary principle: individuals have the right to choose how to live and live in freedom.
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Portraits of Liberty retweeted
26 Apr 2022
"Rebellion Against Tyrants Is Obedience to God." -Benjamin Franklin
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Portraits of Liberty retweeted
25 Apr 2022
"Liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and his works." -Frédéric Bastiat
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Portraits of Liberty retweeted
24 Apr 2022
"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." -Calvin Coolidge
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Portraits of Liberty retweeted
6 Jun 2022
It is hard to get a clear picture of Richard Cantillon's life.
Even his death is shrouded in mystery. Some have argued he was murdered by a servant, others that he faked his death.
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Portraits of Liberty retweeted
20 Jun 2022
Leonard E. Read, an activist, a fundraiser, and an administrator, is best known for originating the oldest existing free‐market nonprofit in the world, the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).
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Portraits of Liberty retweeted
19 Jun 2022
Essentially, the term civil society refers to the sphere of uncoerced collective action, as opposed to individual action, on the one hand, and government, on the other hand.
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Portraits of Liberty retweeted
23 Apr 2022
"Freedom is not a permission granted by any Authority. Freedom is a fact." -Rose Wilder Lane
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4 Jun 2022
"Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge." -Henry George
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Portraits of Liberty retweeted
21 Apr 2022
"Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning." -Anders Chydenius
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Portraits of Liberty retweeted
17 Jun 2022
The central libertarian claim that all human beings—indeed, all rational agents—have equal fundamental rights is rooted in the ancient tradition of cosmopolitan thought.
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Portraits of Liberty retweeted
9 May 2022
After a lifetime in politics, Ibn Khaldun wrote his famous book Muqaddimah, today recognized as a masterwork of economics, historiography, and sociology.
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