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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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‘If...’
By Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling’s much-loved verses are a reflection on what it is that builds real character.
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A Nation’s Wealth
By Richard Cobden
It is not politicians and their policies that create wealth, but the hard work and ingenuity of ordinary people.
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‘Better Habits, Not Greater Rights’
By Samuel Smiles
The extraordinary productivity and social mobility of the Victorian era is to the credit not of the governing class, but of the working man.
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No Dog Exchanges Bones with Another
By Adam Smith
How do we get the help of millions of people we don’t know? Only by trade.
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Peace By Free Trade
The blessing of trade free from political interference was one of most important insights in British, indeed world history.
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There is No Liberty without Self-Control
By Edmund Burke
Anti-Christian governments don’t make us free, they just impose their own, illiberal morality.
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