Natural Rights: Liberty Doesn’t Need a Government Permission Slip
Even though many people credit Thomas Jefferson for the natural rights principles in the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson himself pointed out that he didnโt invent those ideas. Instead, he wrote, he had adopted the “harmonizing sentiments of the...
The Most Dangerous Character to Liberty?
Who is the greatest threat to liberty? Is it the left or the right? Politicians or their bankers? People who support the “lesser of two evils,” or someone else? James Otis, unsurprisingly, had some strong views on the “most dangerous character to...
Rights are Not Gifts from Government
โA free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.โ Thatโs how Thomas Jefferson put it in 1774. And it truly stands the test of time. Rights are not gifts from government. They donโt come from...