To many people today, liberty is little more than choosing new people to rule over them every few years. And even in the founding generation, there was a wide range of viewpoints on just what constitutes a state of liberty.
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What if liberty and democracy are opposites? What if the principle underlying liberty is to restrain the government to maximize individual autonomy? What if the principle underlying democracy is to unleash the government to give the people whatever they want?
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Government is waging a war on your liberty. And it’s not just happening when the team you don’t like is in power. This is how things have always been.
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Corrupt and repressive, weighted down by heavy bureaucracy - it’s all around us and getting worse year by year. But an alternative to total tyranny is attainable. These five principles can put things on a new path - to liberty.
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Liberty can only exist with responsibility...Our responsibility to defend it.
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It took two centuries for the federal government to grow into the behemoth that it is today. And you're not going to cut it back down to size in a day.
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Thomas Jefferson called the public debt, “the greatest of the dangers to be feared.” As he put it, we have a choice “between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.”
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When you deprive people of their property, you deprive them of their liberty.
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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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Supporting liberty is supposed to be more important than supporting government power. In other words, if there is any doubt about government power, you’re supposed to decide in favor of less power and more liberty.
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