We are all familiar with the “A republic, if you can keep it" reply attributed to Benjamin Franklin at the close of the 1787 Constitutional Convention upon being asked what type of government the Constitution was bringing into existence ...
No political philosophy respects human rights, individual liberty, human dignity, and life itself more than libertarianism. Yet, one of the major civil-liberty controversies present in our society is largely ignored by libertarians: capital punishment.
In 14 years of involvement in ...
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
— Henry David Thoreau
Reading Friedrich A. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, one is ...
What is it to be born free and not to live free?
— Henry David Thoreau, “Life Without Principle”
“Freedom is ...
Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men. — Mortimer Adler
It is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. It knows best what we need and what must be done. ...
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of ...
