Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 27 of the late Brian Doherty’s marvelous 2007 book, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement:

In early America, commerce – that great libertarian emollient of all social ills, that creator of wealth and happiness – was breaking free of the old-fashioned strictures and attitudes that denied it respect. We were to be a great commercial republic and, to the best of our ability, a free republic. In other words, a libertarian republic.