Archive for the ‘Founders’ Category

Brit Daniel Hannan at CPAC 2012

Posted: February 12, 2012 by ShortTimer in Conservatism, Founders, Government
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HT HotAir: An excellent speech.  Worth spending the 27 minutes to watch. Update: Note to HotAir readers (a lot more than normal for a trackback) who stumbled over here, you may want to check the “economic freedom” category of posts.  You’ll find many parallel themes there.

Thomas Paine on the Constitution

Posted: October 24, 2011 by ShortTimer in Founders, United States Constitution
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From The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine: But it will be first necessary to define what is meant by a Constitution. It is not sufficient that we adopt the word; we must fix also a standard signification to it. A constitution is not a thing in name only, but in fact. It has not [...]

Road To Serfdom Excepts 3

Posted: May 31, 2011 by ShortTimer in Conservatism, Declaration of Independence, Economic freedom, F.A. Hayek, Founders, free markets, Freedom of religion, hot chicks, Individualism, International Leftists, Leftists, Levin, Liberal Fascists, Philosophy, Political science, Progressives and Left, slavery, Socialism, The Constitution, The Road To Serfdom, Thomas Sowell, Uncategorized, United States Constitution, United States Declaration of Independence, USA PATRIOT Act
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From Chapter 11: The End of Truth The most effective way of making everybody serve the single system of ends toward which the social plan is directed is to make everybody believe in those ends.  To make a totalitarian system function efficiently, it is not enough that everybody should be forced to work for the [...]

>The New Colossus

Posted: February 21, 2010 by ShortTimer in Founders, Liberty, Philosophy
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>Today is the first time I can recall hearing this in its entirety, which amazes me in several ways. —The New ColossusNot like the brazen giant of Greek fameWith conquering limbs astride from land to land;Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall standA mighty woman with a torch, whose flameIs the imprisoned lightning, and her [...]

>Freedom Is A Light

Posted: January 2, 2010 by ShortTimer in conservative, First Amendment, Founders, Individualism, Tea Party
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>For Which Many Men Have Died In Darkness Happy New Year.