A culture of obedience and compliance guarantees that government will never stop growing - and defiance and nullification represent the “rightful remedy” to usurpations of power. But today, many people live in fear - and never take the steps needed to help advance liberty.
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Fear leads to pessimism and inaction. And if we fail to act, they have already won.
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To the founders and old revolutionaries, liberty requires a rejection of fear, ignorance, and a culture of obedience. But it also takes courage - fortitude and perseverance - to support freedom, whether government likes it, or not.
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When you live in fear and beg government to protect you, you give it more power over you. And when you're afraid to resist unwarrantable government actions, you empower it even more.
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All the attention focused on a big balloon, and a missile to shoot it down - exposes a much bigger problem we face for the Constitution and liberty.
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Fear is the foundation of government power. That's why governments are always coming up with new emergencies to save us from.
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Responding to Federalist claims that rejecting ratification would lead to danger, chaos and potential ruin, Patrick Henry took the other side, “it is the fortune of a free people not to be intimidated by imaginary dangers” and urged the addition of a bill of rights first.
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What we do not need is yet another pretext by which government officials can violate the Fourth Amendment at will under the guise of public health and safety. Indeed, at a time when red flag gun laws (which authorize government officials to seize guns from individuals viewed as a danger to themselves or others) are gaining traction as a […]
The post Gun Confiscation Laws Put a Target on the Back of Every American first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.At least one leading founding father not only thought it was possible, but considered it the norm.
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