Subjects

Extracts from Literature

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73

‘God Never Sends Mouths Without Sending Meat’

Riding through Sussex, William Cobbett comes across a large family relaxing together in front of their charming cottage.

74

Liberty and Prosperity

There are solid reasons why countries with lower taxes and less regulation tend to be more prosperous.

75

Liberty and the Magistrate

The citizen should not dutifully accept government intrusion as the price of community life.

76

Treat Me Like a King!

When Porus, the Indian king, surrendered to Alexander the Great at Jhelum, he had only one request to make of him.

77

The Wisdom of the People

In one of his ‘Cato Letters’, John Trenchard took issue with the view (popular in Westminster) that the public could not be left to make up their own minds.

78

Thank Heaven for Free Speech

The authors of the ‘Cato Letters’ recalled how Greek general Timoleon replied when the people he had saved from oppression turned and bit him.