The Learned Man vs. the Uneducated Political Moron
November 22, 2015
“The French Revolution unfolded under the banner of a self-contradictory and unrealizable slogan, ‘liberty, equality, fraternity.’ But in the life of society, liberty and equality are mutually exclusive, even hostile concepts. Liberty, by its very nature undermines social equality and equality suppresses liberty.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The bonds of liberte, egalite, fraternite are not just the values French people share, but we share.”
— Barack Obama
Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo [send him mail] is a former professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland and a longtime member of the senior faculty of the Mises Institute. He is the author or co-author of eighteen books including The Real Lincoln; How Capitalism Saved America; Lincoln Unmasked; Hamilton's Curse; Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government; The Problem with Socialism; and The Politically-Incorrect Guide to Economics.
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