Tag Archives: Liberty

First Principles: To Love Liberty Is To Love Others

Posted on September 21, 2017 by

“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.” —William Hazlitt (1778-1830) This writer, though as British as John Locke, may be much overlooked these days, but he is on point … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Experts On the Public Good Are Often Wrong and Sometimes Dangerous

Posted on September 14, 2017 by

“The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.” —Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992) … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Is Better To Die Free Than Live As Slaves

Posted on September 3, 2017 by

“With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: There Cannot Be Too Much Liberty

Posted on August 30, 2017 by

“It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.”  — Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658)

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Thought For the Day: Socialism Is Legal Plunder

Posted on August 19, 2017 by

“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Better Too Much Liberty Than Too Little

Posted on July 26, 2017 by

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.” — Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Archibald Stuart – 1791)

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First Principles: Subduing Free Speech Begins the Overthrow of Liberty

Posted on July 17, 2017 by

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”  –  Benjamin Franklin, Silence Dogood, The Busy Body and Early Writings        

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Happy Bastille Day!

Posted on July 14, 2017 by

In remembrance of the assistance France gave to the United States in securing our freedom and that we have been allies and friends since then, I wish the people of France and the lovers and admirers of France, a… Saluting … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Person’s Home Is Their Castle

Posted on July 7, 2017 by

“One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle.”–  James Otis, On the Writs of Assistance (1761)

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First Principles: All Are Created Equal With Inalienable Rights

Posted on July 4, 2017 by

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”   – Thomas Jefferson Time … Continue reading →

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