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The importance of the right against self-incrimination.
The Free Life | Wendy McElroy Posted August 16, 2011 on THE FREEMAN “Taking the Fifth” – invoking the right against self-incrimination – is a mainstay of mafia movies in which heinous criminals hide behind liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Today guarantees such as due process are often portrayed as encumbrances that threaten [...]
The Cause Of Liberty
By Matthew Spalding* Liberty is the essential idea that is America. It is at once our greatest inheritance, our greatest achievement, and our greatest bequest to posterity. The Declaration of Independence asserts unalienable rights to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” and the Constitution is meant to “secure the blessings of liberty.” In his [...]
Freedom and its Betrayal
“The essence of liberty has always lain in the ability to choose as you wish to choose, because you wish to choose, uncoerced, unbullied, not swallowed up in some vast system; and in the right to resist, to be unpopular, to stand up for your convictions merely because they are your convictions. That is true [...]
A Legacy of Freedom – A Video Tour Of FEE
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is proud of its sixty-three-year history of presenting the moral and economic foundations of a free society to audiences around the world. Our friends think of us first and foremost for our principles but for those who have visited our headquarters or attended a seminar there, the building from [...]
In My Daydream, The President Is Mostly A Figurehead And A Symbol
An American Classical Liberalism* by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [article in pdf] Every four years, as the November presidential election draws near, I have the same daydream: that I don’t know or care who the president of the United States is. More importantly, I don’t need to know or care. I don’t have to vote [...]
Posted in Freedom Philosophy Tagged Classical Liberalism, Jr., Llewellyn H. Rockell, Ludwig von Mises 2 Comments
Three Cardinal Ideas of Western Politics
by Russell Kirk Now in the political beliefs of what we call “Christian civilization” or “Western civilization” – of which American civilization is a part – there are three cardinal ideas: the idea of justice, the idea of order, and the idea of freedom. These three great concepts are the cement of American society. These [...]
“In God’s Name, I Beg of You to Think.”
There are times that you come upon a gem, like the following three paragraphs by Russell Kirk, written in his book, “The American Cause.” The title of this section in chapter one is, “Ideology and Ignorance.” It has been our contention, at For Freedom’s Sake, that folks need to take more time to think deeply [...]
Posted in Freedom Philosophy Tagged First Principles, Ideology, Ignorance, Nazism, Russell Kirk, Sovieet Communism, The American Cause 4 Comments
John Locke on Liberty and Freedom
The “Second Treatise of Government,” written by John Locke, was composed between 1685 and 1688. His ideas had a great influence on the thinking of our founding fathers. While meditating on the following quote, ask yourself, where am I currently being affected by a violation of Locke’s idea of, “a standing rule to live by, [...]
Also posted in Laws of Nature Tagged John Locke, Laws of Nature, Natural Law, Natural Liberty, Second Treatis of Governmente 6 Comments
Freedom – Quote of the Day
Since it is indisputable, that our great country was founded on the principles of rights granted by God, the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” and a limited government which as John Locke would argue, receives its authority by the consent of the people, a consent that is a continuous process and [...]
Posted in Freedom Philosophy Tagged F. A. Hayek, God, liberty, life, Limite Government, Locke, property, Pursuit of Happiness 4 Comments
