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First Principles: Democracy Leads To Licentiousness Not Liberty
“The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.” –Fisher Ames, speech in the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788 One need only look at the recent law passed by California in … Continue reading
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Tagged Constitution, Democracy, First Principles, Fisher Ames, Liberty, Licentiousness, Republic
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First Principles: It Is Essential To Our Republic To Bear Arms and Know How To Use Them
“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them… The mind that aims at a select militia, must be influenced by a … Continue reading
First Principles: Wise Men Struggle For Liberty
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope and pride. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is … Continue reading
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Tagged Anguish, First Principles, Hope, Liberty, Patrick Henry, Pride, Salvation, Struggle, Truth
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Thought For the Day: The Rule of Law Is What Makes Society Stable
“I believe that the main lesson which our generation has learnt is that we must find a new limit for the activities of government, a limit which leaves ample scope for sensible experimentation but which secures the freedom of the … Continue reading
First Principles: To Love Liberty Is To Love Others
“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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Tagged First Principles, Hypocrisy, Liberty, Love, Love of Others, Ourselves, Power, William Hazlitt
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Thought For the Day: Experts On the Public Good Are Often Wrong and Sometimes Dangerous
“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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Tagged Administrators, Bureaucrats, Danger, Experience, Friedrich Hayek, Liberty, Modern Government, Public Good, Risk, Understanding
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First Principles: It Is Better To Die Free Than Live As Slaves
“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
Thought For the Day: There Cannot Be Too Much Liberty
“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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Tagged Abuse, Deprivation, History, Inailienable, Liberty, Oliver Cromwell
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Thought For the Day: Socialism Is Legal Plunder
“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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Tagged Frederic Bastiat, Legal Plunder, Liberty, Progessive Taxation, Socialism, The Law
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First Principles: Better Too Much Liberty Than Too Little
“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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Tagged First Principles, Founding Fathers, Inconvenient, Liberty, Necessary, Thomas Jefferson
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