Congratulations on the 25th Anniversary

«We recognize the historic role of Swiss Liberals in the cause of freedom.»

Leonard P. Liggio, President, Mont Pèlerin Society

«The Liberales Institut, with its continued dedication to the promotion of liberty in the economic and political sphere, is helping carry the Swiss legacy to future generations and, from its heights, to the rest of the world. Congratulations for your anniversary!»

Alex Chafuen, President, Atlas Economic Research Foundation

„Best wishes to all of our good friends at the Liberales Institut as you celebrate your silver anniversary. We look forward to continuing to march with you toward freer societies around the world.”

Edwin J. Feulner, President, Heritage Foundation

„I congratulate the Liberales Institut for a quarter century of fighting the good fight for individual freedom in all realms, especially for the fight for economic freedom. This freedom is under attack in too many advance nations, particularly in Europe. The Liberales Institut plays an important role in protecting this and other freedoms.”

Michael A. Walker, President, Fraser Institute

„Many congratulations to the Liberales Institut on its 25th anniversary. I hope the next quarter century will prove equally successful in promoting the ideas of freedom and prosperity across Europe.”

Helen Disney, Director, Stockholm Network

„A quarter-century of superb and influential work on behalf of liberty and sound policy is a great achievement of which you, your staff and your supporters should be very proud. Your impact has been substantial and reverberates well beyond the borders of Switzerland. Around the world your philosophical allies are pleased and honored to be in the same camp with you. We salute your long record of success and wish you many more decades of accomplishment to come.”

Lawrence W. Reed, President, Mackinac Center for Public Policy

„I hope you will keep up the good work. Keep the flame of freedom burning and one day it will lighten the world.”

Hubert Jongen, Chairman of Libertarian International

„Congratulations to Robert Nef and his colleagues at the Liberales Institut on the 25th anniversary of your efforts to advance freedom and free markets. A great strength of the classical liberal movement is its worldwide presence. All of us at Cato admire the work you are doing on behalf of Liberalism in Switzerland.”

Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute

„The Liberales Institut is a brilliant example of a team who addresses society with ideas that are well-grounded and powerful, and touches the innermost concerns of people they speak to. They do not shun to look into the various cultural aspects of freedom, and do not limit themselves to a conventional plain policy advocacy.”

Elena Leontjeva, Chair of Board, Lithunanian Free Market Institute

„Mit grosser Sympathie und Bewunderung für den vom Liberalen Institut geleisteten Beitrag zu einem uns verbindenden Anliegen gratuliere ich herzlich im Namen des Walter Eucken Instituts zum 25-jährigen Jubiläum..”

Viktor J. Vanberg, Direktor des Walter Eucken Instituts

„For 25 years, the Liberales Institut, under the leadership of Robert Nef, has been a beacon of freedom. Indeed, the cause of real liberalism is very much in your debt. Happy Anniversary, and keep fighting!”

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., President, Ludwig von Mises Institute

„The Liberales Institut helped Anthony de Jasay to „come out“ as a radical anarcho-capitalist. In offering a platform to such great intellectuals as Anthony, the Liberales Institut helps us all to frame the intellectual debate of our time.”

Cécile Philippe, Director of Institut Economique Molinari

„I always look forward to meeting Robert Nef from the Liberales Institut because I know I will come away challenged and intrigued by his stories and explanations of why things are the way they are… for good and for bad.”

John Blundell, Director, Institute of Economic Affairs

„The works of Switzerland‘s Liberales Institut and Robert Nef's team deserves the highest respect. If all the world‘s free market think tanks were as effective in promoting the principles of liberty as they, the world would be a much, much better place. On behalf of everyone at the Center for the New Europe in Brussels - we salute you.”

Tim Evans, President, Center for the New Europe

„Wir gratulieren dem Liberalen Institut und seinem Geschäftsführer gleichermassen aufs herzlichste. Liberal, aber stets parteipolitisch unabhängig, hat das Institut seine Botschaft des freien, selbstverantwortlichen Bürgers konsequent und unbeirrbar, manchmal unbequem, aber immer mit überzeugender Ehrlichkeit, verbreitet.”

Marcel Studer, Gerhard Schwarz, Progress Foundation

„I feel honored to have known Robert Nef and congratulate the Liberales Institut on its 25th anniversary. Wish you many more years of intellectual success!”

Barun Mitra, President, Liberty Institute

„Alle Mitarbeiter des IWG Bonn senden dem Liberalen Institut in Zürich und seinem Leiter die besten Grüsse und Wünsche zum 25-jährigen Bestehen. Es ist gut, ein solches Institut an seiner Seite zu wissen. Auf eine weiter erfolgreiche Zeit.”

Meinhard Miegel, Leiter des Instituts für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft

„Congratulations to the Liberales Institut and Robert Nef for a quarter-century of promoting the ideas of liberty. It seems that many good things come out of Zurich. Here's to 25 more years of keeping the flame of liberty burning bright.”

Vincent H. Miller, President, International Society for Individual Liberty

Unschätzbar in ihrem Wert ist die Arbeit derjenigen, die wie das Liberale Institut das Bewusstsein um die Bedeutung der Freiheit wachhalten. Zu seinem 25-jährigen Bestehen gratuliere ich dem Institut und seinem Leiter ganz herzlich und wünsche weiterhin viel Erfolg bei unserem gemeinsamen Anliegen: Europa freiheitlich zu gestalten.”

Lüder Gerken, Vorstand Stiftung Marktwirtschaft

„Your consistent policy of speaking Truth to Power is the anecdote to the corrosive erosion, the Fatal Conceit, that always threatens economic and civil liberties. It is appropriate that you mount this battle in Switzerland, a nation that ­ like so many ­ has grown complacent, thinking that the battles to legitimize and defend the institutions of economic liberty have been won forever. An American fighter for freedom, Wendell Phillips, stated in 1852 that “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." The Liberales Institut deserves credit for recognizing and meeting that obligation for the last 25 years. “

Fred L. Smith, Jr., President, The Competitive Enterprise Institute

March 2004