35 years ago in reason.

• Position: Citings

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"Wouldn't we all be better off if the White House became an empty monument to a grisly past, and our Nixonian rulers were turned loose to seek honest employment--provided they can stay out of jail?"

--Murray N. Rothbard, "Watergate, and the Argument from Knowledge"

"A hundred years from now the people of the 21st century will look back with bewilderment at the Supreme Court's 1973 decision on obscenity. How a nation of 'civilized,' 'sophisticated,' 'freedom-loving' people could sit back calmly and accept--and in some cases welcome--this exercise in verbal gymnastics will appear beyond belief."

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