THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

“It is easier to seize wealth than to produce it, and as long as the State makes the seizure of wealth a matter of legalized privilege, so long will the squabble for that privilege go on.”

― Albert Jay Nock

BIRTHDAYS:

1474 Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian Renaissance painter.

1713 Allan Ramsay, Scottish portrait painter.

1870 Albert Jay Nock, American libertarian author, editor, and social critic who advanced a radical individualist philosophy emphasizing limited government, free markets, and elite education for a discerning remnant of society.

MISCELLANEOUS:

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