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 [...]
Tag Archives: Freedom
Is the Friend of Freedom an “Extremist”?
December 7, 2009 8:53 PM by Richard Ebeling on the Mises Blog Friends of freedom are frequently accused of being “extremists” in not being willing to “compromise” with a “reasonable” amount of government regulation, welfare redistribution, and social intervention. But who really is the extremist, the advocate of liberty who respects diversity and differences among [...]
Posted in Classical Liberalism Also tagged Government Intervention, liberty, Ludwig von Mises, Mises Institute, Richard Ebeling, Wealth Redistribution Leave a comment
The Individual Over The Collective…A Historic Celebration
Posted by Peter Boettke on November 08, 2009 at 09:25 AM at The Austrian Economist November 9th 1989 — forgive me if I still get choked up about it 20 years later — is a critical date in modern history whose significance should never be forgotten. Those of us who believe strongly in the freedom [...]
Posted in Battle for Liberty, Fascism Also tagged Collectivism, Peter Boettke, Richad Ebeling, The Austrian Economist, The Fall of the Berlin Wall Leave a comment
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 [...]
The Essence of Freedom
Mises Daily by Robert Montgomery | Posted on 9/2/2009 12:00:00 AM When the news of young America’s novel design for living in freedom reached it, the Old World shook its head with profound skepticism. It would never work, they said. The idea was too “revolutionary,” too “progressive,” too “radical,” and certainly too “liberal.” The prevailing [...]
Posted in Classical Liberalism, Tyranny Also tagged Classical Liberalism, Mises Institute, Robert Montgomery, The Freeman, Tyranny 1 Comment
When We Make The Case For Capitalism, We Are Defending The Political Principle Of Freedom
In an excellent article, by Janet Daley, entitled, “G20: If capitalism is ‘overthrown’, we’ll lose our political freedom,” Daley discusses the importance of understanding what is really at stake at the G20 Summit. “The question we are wrestling with now,” writes Daley, “– and which the G20 will certainly fail to resolve – is how [...]
Posted in Democracy, Economics 101, Free Markets Also tagged Democracy, Europe, free markets, G20, Janet Daley, Socialism Leave a comment
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 [...]
Posted in Freedom Philosophy Also tagged Christian Civilization, Greeks, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Justice, Order, Romans, Russell Kirk, Western Civilization 1 Comment
SOCIALISM?…What Now?…Reflect, Assess, Plan and Act!
“Few discoveries are more irritating than those which expose the pedigree of ideas.” – Lord Action As I watch our political “leaders” vote to steal the wealth of our children and grandchildren, as I watch our nation running to embrace the concepts of socialism as a solution for the nation’s economic crisis, I must say [...]
Posted in Free Markets, Freedom Philosophy, Individual Liberty, Socialism, Uncategorized Also tagged Ayn Rand, Central Planning, F.A Hayek, Germany, Leonard Read, liberty, Newsweek Magazine, Socialism, The Road to Serfdom Leave a comment
