by Burt Folsom: Posted on BurtFolsom.com They want to improve society through increasing the power of the state. We all want to make the world a better place, but progressives choose to do so by increasing the power of the government to enact programs and redistribute wealth from rich to poor. The Progressive Movement started [...]
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John Locke’s Influence on The Declaration of Independence
I discovered John Locke some time ago, but in discovering Greg Forster, I have grown to better understand Locke and appreciate his exhaustive grasp of human nature, philosophy, theology and the historic setting of his life and times and his impact on the principles of our constitutional republic. For Freedom’s Sake was launched for the [...]
Posted in John Locke Also tagged Declaration of Independence, Founding Fathers, Greg Forster, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, Two Treatises of Government 5 Comments
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 [...]
“Advocates Of Freedom Should Set A Good Example”
Steven Horwitz is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University and I have grown to respect his intellect and the integrity with which he conducts himself in his profession. In an article, just posted on The Freeman, Professor Horwitz addresses the need for the defenders of freedom to stay on the [...]
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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 Freedom, Government Intervention, Ludwig von Mises, Mises Institute, Richard Ebeling, Wealth Redistribution 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 Case for Economic Freedom – Part 1
Originally printed in The Freeman: By Benjamin A. Rogge • September 1963 • Volume: 13 • Issue: 9 My economic philosophy is here offered with full knowledge that it is not generally accepted as the right one. On the contrary, my brand of economics has now become Brand X, the one that is never selected [...]
Give Up? Are You Kidding?
B Y L AWRENCE W. R E E D These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is [...]
