Great post, Jeff. Please educate me - who is Dean Russell? Google returned several hits, but nothing that bio's him with this quote. Thanks in advance!
He also translated Bastiati's, "The Law" for that same foundation, HERE, in 1950, when he worked as a staffer for the Foundation on Economic Education as a a journalism graduate student who had finished his service with the Army Air Corps at the time. Russell's translation, published in 1950, introduced Bastiat's writings on freedom to many new readers. It has since sold a half million copies.
He later served as an honorary trustee for the Foundation of Economic Education and as a Professor of Management at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse for a time, and spent six months teaching at the National Taiwan University.
He is generally credited with coming up with the term to define those of the "Libertarian" persuassion and defines it HERE.
He was a great thinker and a loyal, patriotic American. Here are a few more of his essays: