Evil Knows No Distance

State or local tyranny is no better than Federal tyranny. Local evil is just as evil as distant evil. - Lyle

It is just as important to vote on local issues as national ones.

Loss of Liberty

I see people accepting incremental loss of liberty without protest. This is death by a thousand cuts. Loss of liberty for your neighbor cuts you as well. - Lyle

Lunch Menu

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! - Benjamin Franklin


Defend the rights of the lamb.

Honored Values

If we keep treating our most important values as meaningless relics, that's exactly what they'll become. - Michael Josephson


Such as Life, Liberty and Property.

They're On Their Way

When Hitler came for the Jews... I was not a Jew, therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the Catholics, I was not a Catholic, and therefore, I was not concerned. And when Hitler attacked the unions and the industrialists, I was not a member of the unions and I was not concerned. Then Hitler attacked me and the Protestant church; and there was nobody left to be concerned. - Pastor Martin Niemoller


Advocate for others liberty as well as your own.

Extreme Liberty

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. - Barry Goldwater


In the past this is how people approached the world but it has reversed of late.

Delightful Liberty

What more felicity can fall to a creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty? - Edmund Spenser


Perhaps loss of liberty is needed to delight in its return.

Liberty Contest

The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power. - Daniel Webster

  Only government can deny you liberty*. When he says "executive power" he's not talking about a corporate CEO.


*Individuals can deny you freedom, not liberty.

Born With Liberty

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. - Charles Caleb Colton 

  The problem is that most of us in a land born of Liberty did not earn it, and are far too willing to give it away.

Hell's Fury

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. - Milton Friedman


  Bureaucracies have no separation of powers. They make the rules, they police the rules, and they "prosecute" the violators.

Free and Equal

A society that puts equality ahead of freedom will end up with neither. - Milton Friedman

Remember the distinction between equality and equality of opportunity.

Love of Liberty

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. - William Hazlitt

Don't be convinced those who act to protect liberty are working just for the benefit of themselves.

Sheepies

A society of sheep must in time begat a government of wolves. - Bertrand de Jouvenal

Education, not indoctrination; determination, not vacillation; and principled action is essential to maintain Liberty.

Masters

Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master. - Sallust

And masters always claim to be just; but they can't be - they're masters.

Full Measure of Liberty

If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. - Carl Schurz


That is why central planning has no place in a free society.

Insight

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison


It is impressive how insightful Madison and Jefferson were.

Rightful Liberty

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. - Thomas Jefferson 


Tom would be appalled to see how much the tyrants have willed and how much voluntary servitude there is today.

Educator's Task

To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. - Maria Montessori 


No matter if you are teaching an animal, a child, or an adult it is not the push or pull which teaches; it is that well placed moment of release which gives a glimpse of Liberty that all beings seek.


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Watch What You Say, Or Not

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence. - Charles Austin Beard


I know.


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Social Change

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. - Emma Goldman 


Oh! If were only so, Emma!


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