“Society thrives on trade simply because trade makes specialization possible, and specialization increases output, and increased output reduces the cost in toil for the satisfactions men live by. That being so, the market place is a most humane institution.”

—  Frank Chodorov

Source: The Rise & Fall of Society (1959), p. 56

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