Portraits of Liberty

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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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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"There are no tyrants where there are no slaves." -José Rizal

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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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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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"Rebellion Against Tyrants Is Obedience to God." -Benjamin Franklin

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"Liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and his works." -Frédéric Bastiat

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"It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones." -Calvin Coolidge

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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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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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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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"Freedom is not a permission granted by any Authority. Freedom is a fact." -Rose Wilder Lane

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"Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge." -Henry George

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"Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning." -Anders Chydenius

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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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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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