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     Year 1982

#1
Smith, The Ethics of Voting, Part I
McElroy, Neither Bullets Nor Ballots
Watner, Books of Interest: Gene Sharp, THE POLITICS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION
No Comment Department

#2
Petersen, From Politics to Voluntaryism
McElroy, Let My People Go
Smith, The Ethics of Voting, Part II
Statement of Purpose

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     Year 1983

#3
Laughlin, Why I Quit The Libertarian Party
McElroy, Climbing Off the Bandwagon
LeFevre, How to Become a Teacher
Watner, Books of Interest: Gene Sharp, GANDHI AS A POLITICAL STRATEGIST
Statement of Purpose

#4
McElroy, Interview with Paul Jacob
Smith, The Ethics of Voting, Part III
Statement of Purpose

#5
Smith, Murray Rothbard, Voluntaryism, & the Great Gandhi Smear
Statement of Purpose

#6
Watner, Interview with Carl Watner
McElroy, The Party Line on a Party Line
Smith, For the Record
Knudsen, Revolution: The Road to Freedom?
Statement of Purpose

#7
Watner, From the Bowels of the Beast
LeFevre, Cutting Government Growth
Dove, A Political Prisoner

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     Year 1984

#8
Watner, Hanging Not Punishment Enough: The Story Behind Prison Slavery

#9
Tandy, Methods
Watner, Ideas Have Consequences
Watner, Books of Interest: Benjamin Ginsberg, THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONSENT
Quotable: Thomas Hodgskin on bringing legislation into contempt
Jacob, Speak Up! Stand Up!

#10
Watner, Noiseless Revolution
McElroy, Anarchist Communities: An Analysis of Anarcho-Zionism

#11
Watner, Pro-Government Anarchists: Anarchists Have Forgotten Their Principles
Watner & Bilzi, What's Next in the Pursuit of Liberty?
Mack, Auberon Herbert, Voluntaryist

#12
Watner, George Meeks!
You, Your Rights, and the FBI
Watner, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Mencken, What I Believe
Cartoon: How can you be disappointed, nobody won

#13
McElroy, Pornography Peril
McElroy, Update on Paul Jacob
Watner, Update on George Meeks
Jacobson, Letter to the Editor
Watner, The Second Relic of Barbarism: The Crusade Against Mormon Polygamy

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     Year 1985

#14
Smith, An Introduction to Voluntaryist Strategy
Watner, Freedom School II
Vandersteel, Business Keeps Business Honest
McElroy, What Does It Mean to be an Individual? (Self-ownership & abortion)

#15
Smith, Property Rights and Free Trade in Ideas

#16
McElroy, Contra Copyright
Statement of Purpose
Watner, Health Freedoms in the Libertarian Tradition
Solan, Book Review: Mimi Gladstein, THE AYN RAND COMPANION

#17
Statement of Purpose
Watner, Button Pushing or Abdication: Which?
Konkin, Pushing One's Buttons
Update on Paul Jacob
Watner, The Decision Is Always Yours-Freedom as Self-Control
Hoiles, Unlimited Voluntary Exchanges
Koontz, Living Slavery and All That

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     Year 1986

#18
Watner: To Thine Own Self Be True-Hoiles and the Freedom Newspapers
Watner, By Way of Explanation
Statement of Purpose
Solan, A Letter from the Governor of Connecticut
Watner, A Further Note on Freedom As Self-Control

#19
Lowi, Legitimacy and Elections
Cartoon: Nothing against anarchy as long as I am the anarch
Statement of Purpose
Shaw, Who Makes the Coffee in Your Office?
Watner, Book Review: Shaffer, CALCULATED CHAOS
Koman, John Zube and Microfiche
A New Covenant

#20
Watner, A Freedom Philosopher: Robert LeFevre, 1911-1986
Watner, Another Explanation!
Cullinane, Eulogy for Robert LeFevre
Watner, The United States OR America?
Konkin, Copywrongs
White, The Copyright Issue
Flood, Review: Bidinotto, LIBERTARIANISM
Directory Lists Computer-Connected Libertarians
Statement of Purpose
Watner, Meeting Practical Objections to the Free Market
Durant, The State
Anonymous, "1984"

#21
Watner, A Plague on Both Your Houses
Pearse, Letter to the Editor
Shaffer, Communications
Johnson, Government-The Bad News

#22
Watner, Editor's Note to International Crime Bulletin
Rummel, Wanted: The State
Szasz, The Psychiatric Will
Watner, Help and Respond!

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     Year 1987

#23
Watner, Hard Money in the Voluntaryist Tradition
Watner, Re: Bob LeFevre's Biography
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Strider, The Search for Peace

#24
Quigley, Public Authority and the State in the Western Tradition
DeJan, Open Systems vs. Closed Systems
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Johnson, Why I Detest the State
Cartoon: I had the notion since I earned it, it was mine!
Statement of Purpose
Ten Pillars of Economic Wisdom
The Wheel of Economic Progress

#25
Watner, Thinkers and Groups of Individuals Who Have Contributed Significant Ideas or Major Written Materials to the Radical Libertarian Tradition
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Watner, Beyond the First Amendment
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Sherman, The Inflation of Rights

#26
Rothbard, The Voluntaryist Insight
Watner, It's Only Just A Beginning: Reflections on Being a New Father
Cartoon: Breakdown of parental authority-you want me to buck the system?
Shaffer, Constitutions: No Authority
LeFevre, Truth Is Not a Half-Way Place, To Seek the Second Summit
Watner, Freedom Country
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Palven & Johnson, Open Letter and Response

#27
Tinker, The Power of Non-Violent Resistance
Watner, The Noose Is Tightening: The Threat to Your Stash of Cash
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Wilcox, What Is Political Extremism?
Curley, Voluntary Musings

#28
Pugsley, The Case Against T-Bills & Other Thoughts on Theft
Watner, We're All Inside Traders
Watner, And Every Man Did What Was Right in His Own Eyes
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Watner, A Moral Riddle?
Mail Auction

#29
Watner, Free Banking and Fractional Reserves
White, Free Banking and Fractional Reserves: A Reply
Watner, What Are We For? What Do We Believe?
Watner, What Is Our Plan?
PREVENTION Magazine chart for regenerative living
Potpourri From the Editor's Desk
Curley, Voluntary Musings

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     Year 1988

#30
Watner, If This Be Treason, Make the Most of It!
Watner, Some Critical Considerations on the United States Constitution
Watner, The Noose Tightens Another Notch (employment eligibility form)
We Don't Need to Say It, He Already Has!
Watner, My 1988 New Year's Resolution
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Watner, Voluntaryist Research Topics
Was Aesop a Voluntaryist?
Block, A Free Market in Kidneys
What to Do When the FBI Comes
Smith, Letter to the Editor
Anderson, A Vignette from History, Rose Wilder Lane
Cartoon: Which variety of absolute despot: Democrat or Republican?

#31
Watner, I Don't Want Nothing from Him!
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Cullinane, A Summary of the 10 Planks of Communism
LeFevre, Unlimited Government
Paine, Of Society and Civilization
Doughtery, A Commitment to Voluntaryism
Watner, Libraries in the Voluntaryist Tradition
Mayer, The Day the World Was Lost
Watner, My 1988 New Year's Resolution
Another Great Moment in American History: Gold Confiscation Order

#32
Watner, Property Rights or Eminent Domain?
Paul, Reply to Book Review
Maybury, Trust Government, Not the Free Market
Contributors to the LeFevre Book Fund
Curley, Letter to the Editor
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Jaggard, My Peace
Watner, The Constitution and Unsound Money
Cartoon, IRS: Walk in with your hands up
Strider, Make Money, Not War!

#33
Watner, Book Review: Bukovsky, TO CHOOSE FREEDOM
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Butler, Letter to the Editor
Watner, Reply to letter
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Cartoon: Fighting over which is most committed to peace
Cartoon: Nothing personal, I'd be voluntaryist no matter who was king
Hess, Man for All Seasons-Foreword to LeFevre's Biography
Contributors to LeFevre Book Fund

#34
Watner, Does Freedom Need to be Organized?
LeFevre, How Can We Do It?
Watner, The Struggle for Religious Freedom in the Voluntaryist Tradition
Cartoon: I'm from the government & here to help you
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Chodorov, Peace or Politics
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Johnson, Fable for the Silly Season

#35
Rothbard, Preface to The Production of Security
Molinari, The Production of Security
Watner, The Myth of Political Freedom
Curley & Chandler, Being an Individual
Curley, Voluntary Musings
A Warning from Benjamin Franklin
Cartoon: He stands there all day, saying nothing & calls it politics
Glick, Contra the New Covenant
Is There a Secret Voluntaryist on the staff of the WALL ST. JOURNAL?
Cartoon: We don't have to fool all the people, only the 30% that vote

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     Year 1989

#36
Watner, Private Money Firsts
Watner, How Bob LeFevre Found Me a Wife
Nock, The Criminality of the State (1939)
Upton quote-history of currency is little else than state interference
Watner: A 'Pis Aller,' Book Review of Morgan, INVENTING THE PEOPLE

#37
Watner, The Exit Option
Watner, Conflicts of Allegiance, Book Review of THE TREE OF LIBERTY
Reich quote-political boundaries are not real for business purposes
Nock, Isiah's Job
Cartoon: Taxed out of existence
Cartoon: Re-election-not as corrupt as you think
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Contributors to the LeFevre Book Fund
Make Haste Slowly
Chomsky quote-government better control what the people think
Chomsky, Propaganda, American-Style

#38
Watner, Not A Noise, But a Racket!
Watner, Hard Money, Soft Money, and Government Money!
Watner, A Way Out-Victory Without Violence
Freeman quote: rumored that Greece will honor the unknown taxpayer
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Cartoon: We could afford a tax cut if there weren't revolutions
Watner, Creature of the State?
Cartoon: This is an IRS coup
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Russell, Freedom Works Both Ways

#39
Bourne, War Is the Health of the State
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Cartoon: I really don't think you've given democracy a chance
Cartoon: Tell him you're a lawyer
Mencken: A Frank Confession of Faith
Cartoon: That's William Penn-a Mover and a Quaker
Quote-The orangutan is human but speechless to avoid taxes
Quote-A penny tax is trifling, but the power to impose it is awesome
Russell, A Short History of Liberty

#40
Statement of Purpose
Watner, The Fundamentals of Voluntaryism
Watner, Cultivate Your Own Garden: No Truck with Politics
Watner, Tucker: Reflections on the Second Time Around
Cartoon: Thumb-sucking is a victimless crime
Cartoon: You're free to do anything you want; though you may go to jail
Cartoon: Cutting off your head is part of the political process.
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Watner, Market Entrepreneurs vs. Political Entrepreneurs: Book Review
of Folsom, ENTREPRENEURS VS. THE STATE
Cartoon: You'll have to raise taxes; I promised not to
Hopkins: quote-those who are taxed at pleasure are slaves
Literature available

#41
Watner, Voluntaryism on the Western Frontier
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Cartoon: That wet paint is government property!
Hassle or Castle? The Story of a House without a Permit
Cartoon: The City Zoning Commission is getting out of hand
Amador, Everybody a Millionaire
Cartoon: Take that 'Customer Is Always Right' sign down
Jaggard, Freedom Is Available

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     Year 1990

#42
Watner, Two Undergrounds: The Case for Disobedience to Wicked Laws
Watner, Emergencies!
Cartoon: I decided to fight the system & it fought back
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Quote: Not being totally responsible leads to irresponsibility
Cartoon: The bucks stops here and the government takes 45%
Quote: The vision of 100 million taxpayers paying is exquisite
Semmens, Freer Is Safer

#43
Watner, The Sin of the Intellectuals
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Cartoon: Isn't eternal vigilance a little paranoid?
Cartoon: If the pen is mightier than the sword, why no pen control laws?
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Cartoon: This is government property
Martin: What I Don't Believe

#44
Tilly, War Making and State Making as Organized Crime
Quote: When Congress makes a joke, its a law
Cartoon: The people are holding on to their money
Quote: The Defense Department is the world's third largest planned economy
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Cartoon: Temporary taxes hang on and on
Quote: An honest politician is as unthinkable as an honest burglar

#45
Watner, Voluntaryism and the English Language
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Watner, The Case Against Democracy
Nisbet quote: No difference between totalitarian and democratic governments
Cartoon: We don't let people in unless they cheated on their taxes
Cartoon: Elections should be more frequent-they wouldn't have time to legislate
Quote: No man is physically enslaved until he is first mentally enslaved
Cartoon: Farm program goes against my 'grain'
Some FREE LIFE Sayings

#46
Watner, "Voluntary" Contributions to the National Treasury: Where Does One Draw the Line?
Nisbet, Cloaking the State's Dagger
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Cartoon: I work the first 5 months of the year to pay my taxes
Quote: The history of political thought is a history of one euphemism after another to disguise the naked power of the state
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Helming, We're Just Parents!
Cartoon: It's a good thing courtesy doesn't cost anything-otherwise they'd find a way to tax it
Pearls of Wisdom from the Past: James Arrington Clay, "Of Government"

#47
Watner, Weights and Measures: State or Market?
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Watner, Voluntaryism in the Evolution of the Oil Industry
Cartoon: They got me for filing a frivolous tax return
Heinlein quote: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out to be worthless
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Coughlin, Letter to the Editors
Watner, Book Review-C.V. Myers, FIFTY YEARS IN THE FURNACE

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     Year 1991

#48
Watner, An Octopus Would Sooner Release Its Prey: Voluntaryism vs. Educational Statism
Herbert quote: Government and individual effort cannot live side by side
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Watner, The Chickens Come Home to Roost-The Master Plan for "Tightening the Noose"
Burnham quote: The IRS-twice as big as the CIA
Cartoon: There are limits to your freedom: you're entitled to your opinion, but not your money
Quote: A child educated only at school is an uneducated child
Buber quote: "Society and the State"
Quote: One good mother is worth a hundred school teachers
Cartoon: I had to stay after school: They caught me reading
Harper, Try This On Your Friends

#49
Watner, Man Without A Country
Hanjian, Citizenship Papers
Lippman quote: The modern absolute state claims total power, whether it is communist, fascist, or democratic
Cartoon: Suppose I refuse to pay-how many years do I get?

#50
Pearse, Why Not More Freedom?
Watner, "Like a Voice Crying in the Wilderness"-A Restatement of Purpose
Socrates quote: Let him that would move the world, first move himself
Garrison quote: The public good can never require the sacrifice of the individual, for to do evil that good may come is absurd
Cartoon: Here is our most essential man-he thinks up new social problems
Curley, Voluntary Musings
Cartoon: I couldn't find the fairy tale book, so I'm going to read to you from the Congressional record
Jaggard, I Do Have a Choice
Freedom School Bulletin, A Study in Freedom
Points to Ponder

#51
Watner, Chaos in the Air: Voluntaryism or Statism in the Early Radio Industry?
Watner, Trust Not in Princes
Nietzsche quote: Insanity is a rare thing in individuals, but habitual to groups, parties and ages
Sagehorn, Such Is Progress
Cartoon: Its great working for the government
Cartoon: Politics is innuendo and out the other
Thanks to Rex May
Ziesing, Personal Anarchy

#52
Watner, Voluntaryism and the Evolution of Industrial Standards
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Cartoon: A government grant for writing a book on free enterprise
Cartoon: Bureau of Stadnards [sic]
Cartoon: A new idea that will benefit mankind: taxes
Glasner, The Threat of Voluntary Associations

#53
Watner, "One of our Most Human Experiences": Voluntaryism, Marriage, and the Family
Cartoon: Let the free market take care of you
Quote: If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders
Cartoon: I now pronounce you man and wife-here's your list of federal guidelines
Quote: Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around
Quote: Cooperation, not conflict, has been the most valuable form of human behavior
Danielson, An Answer to David Pearse: A Free Society Isn't an Unrealistic Goal
Gatto, Why Schools Don't Educate

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     Year 1992

#54
Crespo, Medicine: Deregulated or Dead
Watner, Of Hippocratic Medicine, Pythagoras, and Voluntaryism
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Quote: Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself
The Hippocratic Oath
Frankl quote: Freedom and responsibility are two sides of the same coin
Brembeck quote: Fundamental change in society has always come from vast numbers of people changing their minds just a little
Lessing, The Power of the Individual
Skousen, Persuasion versus Force

#55
Watner, "For Conscience's Sake"
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Watner, Academic Freedom
LeFevre, I Am The Spirit of Liberty
Harper, The Open Society
Bakunin, "For Reasons of State"

#56
Watner, Voluntaryists and Indians: Proprietary Justice and Aboriginal Land Rights
Watner, Rightful Property Ownership and Wrongful Possession
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Some FREE LIFE Sayings
Woodcock, Anarchy Is Where You Find It
Hoiles, Letter to the Editor-Taxation vs. Human Nature
Bakunin, Natural Law and Authority

#57
Watner, What We Believe and Why
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Anderson, Limited Government-A Moral Issue?
Eviction and Arrest for War Tax Resisters in Colrain, Mass.
Watner, Winning the Battle, Losing the War
Cartoon: It is no longer cost-effective to handle cash
Clark, Notes on War and Freedom
Arthur, "Government Enterprise"
Deming, The Political Enemy Is Politics Itself

#58
McElroy, We Believe
Watner, Bad Or Worse!
Cartoon: I don't trust people who work for the government
LeFevre quote: It is morally incorrect to knowingly select a wrongful course simply because it appears to be less wrong than some alternative. The lesser of two evils is still evil
Mon, War & Education
Rogers quote: "Taxes" must have been one of the most prolific animals aboard Noah's ark
Reed, As Values Collapse, Government Grows
Hoiles, Initiation of Force
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Koestler quote: The number of victims of robbers, etc. is negligible compared to the massive numbers slain in the name of politics
Cartoon: And I say to you-I am the lesser of two evils
Hegener, On Our Children and Their Education

#59
Watner, Who Controls the Children?
Cullinane, "Flint and Steel" The Memoirs of a Superfluous Spark
Adams, "Drawing the Line"
Ybarra quote: Cops are the real rulers of your everyday life
Cartoon: What do you mean, the government's out to get you? It's already got you!
Hess, The Death of Politics
Medved quote: Change, when it comes, will be a grass roots revolution
Quote: Force is no remedy. You cannot conquer ideas with bullets
Cartoon: Mr. Larabee won't negotiate with terrorists
Moyers, The Philosophy of Immunization
Who We Are and Why We Are the Way We Are
Stevens quote: The truth shall make you free, but first it will make you miserable

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     Year 1993

#60
Johnson, Freedom: The Moral Foundation
Watner and Bellerue, Would You Have Signed the Declaration of Independence?
Cartoon: You paid your withholding taxes, but what have you done for us lately?
Scherman quote: The game of rulership-how much can be seized from whom without engendering revolution
Cartoon: As long as they are busy burning flags, they are not burning you
LeFevre, The Illegality, Immorality, and Violence of All Political Action
Durant quote: The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character
Schuermann, God's Ambush
Cartoon: The number you have reached has been taxed out of existence
Lilburne quote: There is no such slavery as that which is brought upon the people by the presence of law and their own voluntary consent
Tolstoy quote: War and Killing are carried on by men. When men understand that, then these things will cease to exist.
Dromgoole, The Bridge Builder
Bellerue, Politicians: M.Y.O.B.!
Bunche quote: There are no warlike peoples-just warlike leaders

#61
Watner, The Most Generous Nation on Earth: Voluntaryism and American Philanthropy
Graham, My Father's Bridge to the Saturday Girls
Getty quote: The best form of charity is meeting a payroll
Lowell quote: The problem of charity
Rosenau quote: Those capable should assume the care of a single family
Cartoon: All donations go directly to me
Ringer quote: No one has the right to force men to be charitable. I am not against charity, but I am against the use of force.
Watner, Seizure Fever

#62
A Friend of Paine, A Declaration of Personal Independence
Watner, In All But Name
Macaulay quote: Some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the government or it will be plundered by Huns and Vandals that have been engendered by your own institutions
A Friend of Paine, Letter to the Editor
Cartoon: This tax hike is another step to a cashless society
Bracken, Flint and Steel II
Cartoon: Your frozen assets have been dropped and they broke
Fresia quote: The Constitutional Convention was actually a coup d'etat
Jaggard, Let Freedom Reign
Miller, Would You Have Signed the Declaration of Independence?
Romtvedt, Loyalties

#63
Dowd, A Voluntaryist Path To A Free-Market Money
Taxpayer, A Note To The Commissioner
Cartoon: It would be more merciful just to enslave them
Bellerue: Who We Are
Goldfinger quote: Double your money by folding it
Duffy, Take Care of Yourself
Weaver quote: Americans had no plan; they had the personal freedom to plan their own affairs
Better Homes and Gardens quote: Blaming politicians is like condemning hammers for causing profanity
Statement of Purpose
Quote: Without political laws wise men would live the same
Christensen, Abolish the Family?

#64
Watner, Major Crimes of the United States Government: 1776-1993
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Endsley, Nutrition Is Too Important To Be Left to the Free Market
Baez quote: Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
Meyer, Thoughts on Nonviolence

#65
LeFevre, Freedom-A Way, Not a Goal
Gordon, Freedom Is A Two-edged Sword
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Watner, Caveat Emptor! (Even in the Free Market)
Hegener and Watner, Why Homeschool?
Bendix quote: A Duty of Citizenship
Frost quote: We call ourselves free because we must attend school
Arrendt quote: Aim of totalitarian education is to destroy the capacity to form convictions
Whitehead quote: Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see
Friend of LeFevre, Letter to the Editor
Quote: No other success can compensate for failure in the home
Meyer, I Do Not Like It, Uncle Sam
Cartoon: You can't go shopping; I promised we wouldn't interfere in the marketplace
Paine's Torch, Grateful Slave
To Risk: Slaves are chained by their attitudes. Only a person who risks is free.
Watner, No Guarantees: Freedom Depends on You!
Make One Small Change In Your Life

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     Year 1994

#66
Watner, Patriotism or Voluntaryism?: "Anywhere So Long As There Be Freedom"
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Schuermann, Thoughts At the Lincoln Memorial
Neubauer quote: It is better to be crudely right than precisely wrong
Wheeler quote: The way to get rid of corruption in high places is to get rid of high places
Quote: By institutionalizing their monopolistic controls over all geographic areas on this planet, governments have transformed the known world into a vast prison
Smith, What If? When Anybody's Rights Are Threatened, Everybody's Rights Are
Meyer quote: Freedom implies error as well as truth; no one should have the power to impose beliefs by force
Cartoon: Never mind the dirty stuff, burn the books on economics
Hawblitzel, Letter to the Editor
Logsdon, Amish Economics: A Lesson for the Modern World

#67
Watner, "By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them": Voluntaryism and the Old Order Amish
Reader's Digest quote: Those who tell white lies soon go colorblind
Cartoon: You mean war isn't in the public interest?
Peachey, The Man Who Would Not Shoot
Abileah quote: All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers
Cartoon: Your arteries are clogged; stop living off the fat of the land
Quote: Wisdom is knowing what to do. Virtue is doing it
Quote: If you want the rainbow you have to put up with the rain
Meyer quote: Men cannot be forced to be free; no act that is forced can partake of virtue or vice
Gilson, Letter to the Editor
Carlson, "For Me, That's Enough"
Quote: Life deals the cards; the way you play them is up to you

#68
Watner, Un-Licensed-Un-Numbered-Un-Taxed
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
This Far: No More!
Countdown To Extinction
Letter to Editor
Pugsley quote: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve
Cartoon: Do this! Do that! You sound like my mother
Watner, Forfeiture Laws: A Reminder from the Past
Cartoon: What's so bad about organized crime-you guys are organized
Computers and Government!
Ji, 14th Century Chinese Story Teaches Non-cooperation
Orwell quote: Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable
van Huizum, Lao-Tzu and the Anarchists
Ross, Some Advice for the Russian Congress
Lavoie quote: Central planning is more chaotic than capitalist depressions at their worst

#69
Watner, Rediscovering Charles Lane
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Cartoon: If the economy is so healthy, why do I keep giving it transfusions?
"Crisis Management"-Government Style
Watner, "Stone Walls Do Not A Prison Make": The Mayville Five-Prisoners of Conscience
Cartoon: You are under arrest for disturbing the peace
Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison
Lapp, Letter to the Editor
Lapp, Let Our People Go
Cartoon: Terrorists put truth serum in our coffee
Braley, Fresh Every Hour
Braley, The Little Tin Gods
Rogers quote: If you injected truth into politics, you'd have no politics

#70
Browne, A Visit to Rhinegold
Watner, Anya Colleen: That's What Family, Friends, and Neighbors Are For
Statement of Purpose
Watner (Julie), A Definition of Freedom

#71
Watner, Highway Tax vs. Poll Tax: Some Thoreau Tax Trivia
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Cartoon: Whether the glass is half empty or full is unimportant; it is who owns the glass
Zweig quote: One who has appealed to force must use force to the end
Conger, An Anti-Electorate Manifesto
Farnam, Early Government Legislation in the United States: The Constitution, Direct Taxation, and Seamen
Cartoon: You are entitled to your opinion, but not your money
Swindoll quote: Life is 10% what happens, and 90% attitude
McKells, On States of Mind

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     Year 1995

#72
Watner, "Sweat Them At Law With Their Own Money": Forfeitures and Taxes in American History
Carter, George Washington And The Whiskey Tax
Watner quote: The State has nothing of its own, wants everything, and will do everything to get it
Cartoon: Politicians put my money where their mouth is
Cartoon: Power corrupts; present company excepted
International Forfeiture Alert!
Wentworth quote: Sweet is the name of liberty
Woodworth, Government Is An Unnecessary Evil

#73
Watner, Whose Property Is It Anyway?
Browne, The Breakdown of Government
Mann quote: Those who speak truths are liable to get hurt, but they are the closest thing we have to hope
Sanders, Big Brother Attacks!
Cartoon: Two forms of I.D. for cash
Richman quote: For centuries, people taught their children to read and write without the help of government
Orlov quote: History is not a given; we are responsible
Braley, A Noisy Noise
Windolph quote: Some man or group in every form of state has sovereign power to kill and confiscate
Tolstoy, How Can Governments Be Abolished?

#74
Pugsley, Harry, Please, Don't Run for President: An Argument In Defense of the Invisible Hand
Cartoon: The Anarchists blocked a bill to impeach you
LeFevre quote: When it comes to government power, there are no good men
Correspondence To And From The Editor

#75
Watner, Beyond The Reach of Authority
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Cartoon: It's cute now, but do you realize how big it is going to get?
Back Issue Clearance Sale
Auction-Auction

#76
Watner, "Plunderers Of The Public Revenue": Voluntaryism And The Mails
Duverus quote: One basic truth

#77
Watner, "Vices Are Not Crimes": Defending DEFENDING THE UNDEFENDABLE
Silent Weapons for Silent War
How Much Consent?
Spooner quote: Vices are not crimes
Lord Hugh Cecil quote: Liberty consists in the power of doing what others disapprove
Block, Libertarianism and Libertinism

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     Year 1996

#78
Lord Hugh Cecil, Liberty and Authority
Mises quote: When we argue the state should do something, we ultimately imply that the police should kill and confiscate to enforce the law
Voluntaryist quote: We can only secure our own liberty by preserving it for the most obnoxious among us
Quote: Stand on your rights, but remember your manners
Estes, We Never Called Him "Andy": My Recollections of Andrew Joseph Galambos

#79
Watner, The Tragedy of Political Government
Lowi quote: The fundamental purpose of all government jobs is to maintain conquest
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Statement of Purpose
The Defacto Bill of Rights
Lowi quote: Voting and participating in government are instruments of conquest
Cartoon: I don't tell you how to pay your taxes, so don't tell me how to spend them
Adams, The Historical Origins of Voluntaryism
Cartoon: But Your Honor-it was such a small bank!
Chubb and Moe quote: Democracy is coercive, the winners impose their policies on the losers
Watner, Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

#80
Watner, "Beyond the Wit of Man to Foresee": Voluntaryism and Land Use Controls
Cartoon: I hate to cut your head off, but it is part of the political process
Rothbard, "Will Rothbard's Free-Market Justice Suffice?"

#81
MacCallum, A Model Lease for Orbis
Cartoon: Let them form their own government!
Statement of Purpose
Hoiles, The Most Harmful Error Most Honest People Make

#82
Barnett, Pursuing Justice in a Free Society: The Power Principle
Prechter, Paper: No Substitute for Gold
Twain quote: Always do right!
Cartoon: I'm on a power trip - it's my job!
MacCallum, In Search of a Word: Limited Government versus Anarchy

#83
Barnett, Pursuing Justice in a Free Society: The Liberty Approach

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     Year 1997

#84
Watner, "Stateless Not Lawless": Voluntaryism and Arbitration

#85
Watner, Harry Browne-Have You Forgotten?: The Lesser of Two Evils Is Still Evil
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
West quote: When I pick between two evils, I pick the one I haven't tried before
Cartoon: I never vote - it only encourages politicians
McElroy, Why I Would Not Vote Against Hitler

#86
Watner, Is 'Taxation Is Theft' A Seditious Statement?: A Short History of Governmental Criticism in the United States
Watner, On Keeping Your Own: Taxation Is Theft!
Quote: The More Things Change, The More They Remain the Same
Chafee quote: Does Free Speech Produce Truth?

#87
Watner, Private Charities
Anonymous, The Double Edge of Computers
Statement of Purpose
Cartoon: I recognize that gold piece!
Cartoon: It is Latin for guaranteed to grow!
Literature Received
Licher, Robert LeFevre: A Tribute

#88
Watner, By Their Bootstraps: Voluntaryism and the Cooperative Movement
Warbasse quote: Cooperation vs. the State
Warbasse quote: All forms of government rest upon violence
Warbasse quote: Cooperation depends upon private property
Cartoon: I'm finding for the State - they pay my salary!
Cartoon: What exactly is Bill Clinton supposed to be doing?
Halliday, Who Are the Realists?

#89
Weissberg, Election Day: A Means of State Control
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
McElroy, Contra Gradualism
Anonymous, Letter to the Editor: Evolution of a Voluntaryist
Sanders quote: the American slave mentality would erect a new government

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     Year 1998

#90
Rothbard, The World's First Libertarians: Taoism in Ancient China
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Szasz quote: History teaches us to beware of benefactors who deprive us of liberty
Dali Lama quote: If you can, help. If you cannot, at least do no harm
Skousen quote: Freedom without morality leads to libertinism
LeFevre: Birth of a Man
Browne quote: Good parents shouldn't have their children held hostage in school
Liggio quote: Where government exists, private property rights are negated
Patocka quote: We carry responsibility with us everywhere we go
Tomlin quote: Even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat
Maybury, Why Are They So Stupid?

#91
Smith, Conquest or Consent?: The Origin of the State - Introduction to Franz Oppenheimer's THE STATE
Melloan quote: All national boundaries are accidental
Cartoon: You don't have to fool all the people, just confuse them
Roberts quote: You can't destroy ideas by force or hide them by silence
Maybury quote: When government controls the schools, it does not need to control the press
Swartz quote: If paying taxes made people well off, the world would be rich
Katz, The Cunning of Governments and the Contributions of Citizens

#92
Watner, The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions: Voluntaryism and the Roads
Parade Magazine quote: Everything comes to he who works like hell
Quote: He who has the gold, sets the rules or with the shekels come the shackles
Stephens quote: Times change, men change, but principles never!
Sai Baba quote: Help ever, hurt never!
Aristotle quote: A small error in the beginning leads to a large error in the end
Quote: If you're doing your job, it doesn't matter when the boss comes in
Watner, Why Do We Steer on the Left and Drive on the Right?
Watner, A Short History of Highway and Vehicle Regulations

#93
Watner, Why I Write and Publish THE VOLUNTARYIST
Watner, They Myth of American Liberty: Review of Novak - THE PEOPLE'S WELFARE
Loomis, Replacing Government with Voluntary Action
Cartoon: I no longer care to do business with you. Remove my name
Jewish quote: A little light pushes away much darkness
Slack movie quote: Withdrawing in disgust is not the same as apathy
Hare and Blumberg quote: Gandhian cocktails are a mixture of truth, courage, love and humour
Crosby poem: The State
Watner, A Fund Raising Appeal for THE VOLUNTARYIST Anthology

#94
Lapp Family: The Lapps and the IRS
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Castellio quote: To seek the truth can never be a crime
Pennsylvania Dutch quote: Lighthouses don't ring bells, they just shine
Cartoon: You're guilty of contempt of everything!
Sai Baba quote: Right is right. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody does it!
O'Rourke quote: When buying and selling are controlled, the first thing to be bought is the legislators
Watner, Challenge or Tragedy: A Government Raid at Sublimity, Oregon

#95
Rothbard, Myth and Truth About Libertarianism
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Solzhenitsyn, Participation and the Lie

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     Year 1999

#96
Watner, Once an Owner - Always An Owner
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Crosby poem: The State-House

#97
Hasnas, The Myth of the Rule of Law: Part I
Barclay, What Holds the System Together?

#98
Hasnas, The Myth of the Rule of Law: Part II
Cartoon: Considering the country's ungovernable, we're doing a good job
Hoppe interview: Law, Order and the Failure of the State

#99
Watner, Crime and Monopoly in America
Chodorov, On Underwriting an Evil
Mencken quote: A good politician is as unthinkable as an honest burglar
Quote: If voting could change things, it would be made illegal
Quote: A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away
Twain quote: Suppose you were an idiot; suppose you were a member of Congress
Crosby poem: Politics
Goethe quote: None are more enslaved than who falsely believe themselves free
Kellen, Translator's Introduction to THE POLITICAL ILLUSION

#100
Simmons, Consent, Obligation, and Anarchy
Anonymous, Why I Refuse to Register (To Vote or Pay Taxes)
Quote: The greatest power is the power to choose
Cox, The Low Cost of Living
AIER quote: Governments depend on force
Cartoon: Why vote? There are only politicians running
Jewish quote: One is a lie, two are lies, but three is politics
Wall Street Journal quote: National leaders are not well-adjusted personalities
Sobran quote: War is just another government program
Statement of Purpose
Books Received for Review

#101
Watner, The Illusion Is Liberty - The Reality Is Leviathan : A Voluntaryist Perspective on the Bill of Rights
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
MacWilliam quote, Responsibility means dealing with the consequences of your choices Quote: Just because we have the right to do something, doesn't mean we should Bex quote: It is most difficult to find one man to stand for the truth Green quote: Freedom is not the child of violence Quote: When someone slings mud, let it dry and fall off Lowi, No Conceivable Reform

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     Year 2000

#102
Watner, Ropes of Sand: Voluntaryism and Secessionism
Books Received for Review
Boulding, The Impact of the Draft on the Legitimacy of the National State

# 103
Watner, Is Voting an Act of Violence?
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Statement of Purpose
Ballou, The Superiority of Moral Power Over Political Power
Cartoon: Let's have some fun and make them responsible for their own actions
Cartoon: You don't have to fool all the people, only the ones on your jury
Cartoon: This guy refuses to file - says it's illegal to do business with a hostile gov't
Spooner, Against Woman Suffrage

# 104
Black, The "Not-So" Sweet Air of Legitimacy
Quote: Most law observance is voluntary
Cartoon: What's with taxes? I thought the gov't gave people stuff!
Quote: No matter who gets elected, the gov't always gets in
Cartoon: Certainly this is a free country: you may pay anyway you choose
Neff quote: When your candidate wins, you'll be betrayed by someone you supported
Lenin quote: The more we manage to shoot, the better
Cartoon: I'm from the IRS, testing our new tax simplification plan

# 105
Watner & Budziszewski, Is Taxation Theft?: An Exchange of Letters
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Quote: Killing one person is murder; killing 100,000 is foreign policy
Huxtable quote: What's wrong for the robber is wrong for the state
Cartoon: I'm afraid your son just ain't educable
Watner, Nobody Cares About Hoiles; Everybody Cares About Freedom

# 106
Watner, Points of No Return
Hoiles, Freedom Or Government?
Hoiles, Protection by Voluntary Means
Quote: Find an American family where no one receives a check from the gov't
Cartoon: In order to grant your wish, we need your id number
Caplan, How the Truth of Libertarianism Follows From the Wrongness of Slavery
Cartoon: When it comes to taxes, there are no stupid questions
Cartoon: New cars depreciate fast - but so does money
Licher, Declaration of Individual Independence

# 107
Watner, Count Me Out!

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     Year 2001

#108
Watner, An Open Letter to Kerry Morgan, Author of REAL CHOICE, REAL FREEDOM IN AMERICAN EDUCATION
van Huizum quote: If gov't is a worthwhile cause, why does it have to force people to contribute
Gatto quote: Going to school cannot make you wise
LeFevre quote: If gov't is supposed to provide an education, why isn't it also supposed to provide food, shelter, and clothing
Stiegler quote: Bureaucrats take small problems and make them big
Shaw quote: Liberty means responsibility; that is why most men dread it
Quote: When a 1000 people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing
Cartoon: Never say never: you just said it twice
Tucker, School and State

# 109
Watner, All Mankind Is One
Quote: To concede the idea of secession is to threaten the State
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Tucker quote: The statute book is society's worst enemy
Hornberger, The Virtue of Freedom
Cartoon: Murdering is bad enough, but tax evasion hurts everyone
Quote: Optimists and pessimists look at an overflowing glass in different ways
Kahn quote: Innovate, don't litigate
Murphy quote: The best way to win is to forget to keep score
Hoiles, Moral Ideas Tax Supported Schools Cannot Teach

# 110
Watner, "Value Me As You Please"
Prechter, Paper: No Substitute for Gold!
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Cartoon: I have a brother in politics, but we don't like to talk about him
Watner, Fed Up with the Federal Reserve
Sylvester quote: The true principle of money is payment by weight of metal
Gatto quote: What should make you suspicious about public school is its relentless compulsion
Smith: Delegitimize: Do Not Repeal
LeFevre quote: Do not rely upon gov't for anything at all
Rothbard quote: The gov't and central bankers act as a Grand Counterfeiter
Quote: There has never been a paper currency that has not become worthless
Sanders, Meet the Most Dangerous Man In The Mid-South

# 111
Watner, Just Say "No!"
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Foxfire quote: He wouldn't give the gov't his money
Sherrer, Three Who Just Said No!
Jaggard, Freedom Is Available
Woodworth, It Rests On You!

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     Year 2002

#112
Watner, Titles In Search of Property: Should Fractional-Reserve Banking Come to an End?
Hoppe quote: Fractional reserve banking involves a conspiracy between the bank and its depositors
Coughlin, The Plunderers
Hoppe quote: Fiduciary media is created out of thin air
Hoppe quote: Fractional reserve banking exists only by the grace of statist courts
Porter, There Is an Alternative
Woodworth, A Few Reasons Not To Serve On Juries

# 113
Watner, Why Hans Sherrer?
Sherrer, Why I Wrote "O'Brien's Map of the World"
Boudreaux, The "A" Word
Cook quote: Politics comes from the Greek meaning many bloodsucking insects
Sherrer, O'Brien's Map of the World
Asikatali quote: Even in jail we are free and kept alive by hope
Wallace quote: Every man dies
Hitchen quote: We are a nation of political laws
Hegel quote: The chief duty of the State is to destroy anyone who dares threaten its existence
Trachner quote: A politician steals from the people
Russell, Libertarians & Corporations

# 114
Blankertz, Tribal Anarchy vs. The State
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Quote: Need a helping hand; look at the end of your arm
Fuller, Letter from a Subscriber
Quote: When people own things they care for them
Solzhenitsyn quote: Don't take part in the lie: one word of truth outweighs the world
Sherrer, Non-Voting as an Act of Secession

# 115
Watner, An Open Letter to Frank Geisler and Frank Turek, Authors of LEGISLATING MORALITY: Is It Wise? Is It Legal? Is It Possible?
Watner, History Assumed!
Cartoon: 1984 - The Freeman
Fuller, Evolution to Voluntaryism
Belknap quote: Habits of decency, family gov't, and examples of influential persons contribute more to maintain order than any other authority
Bulger quote: There is never a better measure of a man than what he does when no one is watching
Henderson quote: You cannot make men better by legislation and power over other men is always abused
Liggio quote: Legislation represents civil war
Stevens quote: What is voted up today may be voted down tomorrow
A Comparison of Real Money, Counterfeit Notes, and Federal Reserve Notes

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     Year 2003

#116
Anonymous, Why I Refuse To Be Numbered
Persian proverb: Give a horse to him who tells the truth
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Mooney quote: Voting is a positive affirmation of our political system
Watner (William), What Constitutes a Weapon?
Biko, The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the minds of the oppressed
Books Received
Wittenberg, Just Think!
Quote: Socialism is only communism in disguise
Hart & Kaufman, "I Don't Believe in Taxes"
Blundell & Robinson quote: Rules are an essential part of life and they can be established through voluntary action
Twain, "I wish I could hear of a country that's out of kings!"

# 117
Wolfe, Whose Name Is It Anyway? (Another Tiny Freedom We Ought to Preserve)
Wolfe, An Itty Bitty Guide to Name Changing
Cartoon: America's Two-Party System: US vs. Them
Sirico quote: In a free market people succeed by serving their neighbors
Simpson quote: If a market isn't free and voluntary it's not a market
Juurikkala, How To Fight Against the State
Zweig quote: Blood besoils any idea on whose behalf it is shed
Correcting Common Misconceptions About Nonviolent Action
Russell quote: Love thine enemies - it befuddles them!
Oviedo, Only We Can Make Ourselves Safe: Personal Protection, Not Gov't Protection

# 118
Watner: A Monopoly on the Means of Identification : The Evolution of the Compulsory State Birth and Death Certificate
Potpourri from the Editor's Desk
Quote: Even angels would be corrupted by gov't power
Books Received
Lowi quote: Governments often fail, but they never fail to coerce
Hoppe quote: States do not create law and order; they destroy it
Zweig, Crushing the Spirit

# 119
Watner, The Precursor of National Identification Cards in the U.S. : Driver's Licences and Vehicle Registration in Historical Perspective
Fay quote: Communism began when the gov't began delivering the mail
Quote: The champion is not the one who wins, but the one who never quits
Brown quote: Shoot for the moon. If you miss, you'll land among the stars
Huxley, In a totalitarian state, slaves love their servitude
Porpora quote: Doing nothing to oppose evil in our social and political system leaves us tainted by default
Cartoon: I represent United Muggers. You'll not need to contribute till next year
Watner, Taxtion = Theft : Correspondence with Larken Rose

# 120
Hoppe, The Private Production of Defense
Hoppe quote: Protection cannot be provided by a tax-suported monopoly
Cartoon: Without taxes our gov't would cease to exist
Hoppe quote: A tax-funded protection agency is a contradiction in terms
Watner quote: If taxes are voluntary why are we threatened with criminal sanctions
Harry Browne quote: We have gov't created anarchy now. What we want is the natural order
Dillard, Voluntaryist Talking Points

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