It’s Up to Us to Protect our Rights
We were warned – over and over again. Relying on people with power to do the right thing only guarantees a loss of liberty. As a result, we now live under the largest government in the history of the world. Itโs going to be up to us to protect and defend our...
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...
Rights are not gifts from government: 13 Essential Quotes on Liberty
Thomas Paine called them “imprescriptible rights.” Richard Henry Lee said they came from the “law of nature.” Jefferson reminds us that free people “claim their rights.” But the founders and old revolutionaries didn’t create...