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 "Mysteriously, as Hayek spoke, a new awareness began to move through the audience. The listeners were feeling a new intimacy with liberty. The people listening that day were the very first Americans to hear first-hand Hayek’s powerful words of warning and hope. Soon, dissidents in places of dark tyranny would risk their lives to hear the hopeful message of The Road to Serfdom. Now the audience was leaning forward as the strange Austrian professor concluded. First, scattered applause. Hayek moved to his left toward the little room. Then others joined the few. Now thunderous applause. Hayek paused. The crowd in unison stood to its feet. Can ordinary people be excited by the beauty of powerful ideas unembellished by oratory hyperbole? Yes they can. Yes they must be. "