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Liberty and Prosperity
Stories from Britain and elsewhere confirming the social and economic benefits of keeping politicians and their cronies out of the trade and business of ordinary people.
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David Livingstone
By Clay Lane
The Scottish missionary and medic believed that slavery could better be eradicated by trade than by force.
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Leslie Howard
Howard gave his life to saving the ‘great gifts and strange inconsistencies’ of Britain’s unique democracy.
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Britain’s Destiny
By Leslie Howard
In a Christmas broadcast in 1940, actor Leslie Howard explained why British sovereignty was worth fighting for.
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The Small Compass
By Jeremy Bentham
The role of government in a nation’s prosperity is important but limited.
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Kipling and ‘Agamemnon’
Both Rudyard Kipling and the Royal Navy saw Greek sovereignty as a universal symbol of freedom.
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‘Hail, Liberty!’
By Rudyard Kipling
Kipling borrowed from the Greek Independence movement to give thanks for the end of the Great War.
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