The cuneiform inscription is the earliest-known written appearance of the word "freedom" (amagi), or "liberty." It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash. 

 

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"The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design."

 

-Friedrich A. von Hayek

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"Few things are more scary than the number of people who rely on talking points, instead of weighing serious issues in a serious way."

-Thomas Sowell

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"As a thinking and acting being man emerges from his prehuman existence already as a social being. The evolution of reason, language, and cooperation is the outcome of the same process; they were inseparably and necessarily linked together. But this process took place in individuals. It consisted in changes in the behavior of individuals. There is no other substance in which it occurred than the individuals. There is no substratum of society other than the actions of individuals."

-Ludwig von Mises    

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"The recognition of the insuperable limits to his knowledge ought indeed to teach the student of society a lesson in humility which should guard him against becoming an accomplice in men's fatal striving to control society - a striving which makes him not only a tyrant over his fellows, but which may well make him the destroyer of a civilization which no brain has designed but which has grown from the free efforts of millions of individuals."

-Friedrich A. von Hayek