Liberty Qutoes- Milton Friedman, Sheldon Richman, Thomas Jefferson

"I think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If there’s something wrong, pass a law and do something about it."
-- Milton Friedman
(1912-2006) Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system"
Source: From “An Interview With Milton Friedman,” December 1974, conducted by Tibor Machan, Joe Cobb, and Ralph Raico
http://reason.com/archives/2007/01/24/quotations-from-chairman-milto
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Milton.Friedman.Quote.9244


"Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism.  One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically, any collectivist system necessarily depends on one individual (or small group) to make key social and economic decisions. In contrast, a system based on individualism takes advantage of the aggregate, or 'collective,' information of the whole society; through his actions each participant contributes his own particular, if incomplete, knowledge—information that could never be tapped by the individual at the head of a collectivist state."
-- Sheldon Richman
Editor of The Freeman, author, journalist
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Sheldon.Richman.Quote.97F8


"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society."
-- Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source: Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Thomas.Jefferson.Quote.5309


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American Minute with Bill Federer OCT. 30 - John Adams 'a very burdensome, and... unconstitutional tax, is to be laid upon us...'

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American Minute with Bill Federer OCT. 30 - John Adams 'a very burdensome, and... unconstitutional tax, is to be laid upon us...' John Adams was born OCTOBER 30, 1735. A Harvard graduate, he was admitted to the bar and married Abigail Smith in 1764. When the Revolution started, John Adams recommended that George Washington be the Commander-in-Chief and that Thomas Jefferson pen the Declaration. John Adams authored Massachusetts' 1780 Constitution, and was U.S. Minister to France, where he signed the Treaty of Paris officially ending the Revolutionary War. While U.S. Minister to Britain, John Adams met with his former king, George III. Adams helped ratify the Constitution by writing Defense of the Constitution of the Government of the United States. In 1765, John Adams wrote A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law: "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in Providence for the illumination of the ignorant, and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." Initially, the President was the one who received the most votes and the Vice-President was the one who received the second most votes. John Adams was elected Vice-President twice, serving under George Washington.   In 1796, John Adams was elected the 2nd U.S. President. He established the Library of Congress and the Department of Navy. His son, John Quincy, became 6th President. In his Braintree Instructions, John Adams wrote:   "The late acts of Parliament...divest us of our most essential rights and liberties... The Stamp Act...a very burdensome, and... unconstitutional tax, is to be laid upon us... We are subjected to...penalties, to be prosecuted, sued for, and recovered, at the option of an informer, in a court of admiralty, without a jury... Business...would be totally impossible... That act...would drain the country of its cash, strip multitudes of all their property, and reduce them to absolute beggary... No freeman should be subject to any tax to which he has not given his own consent." In 1819, John Adams wrote to Jefferson: "Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation thoroughly corrupted that was afterwards restored to virtue?... And without virtue, there can be no political liberty... Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?... No effort in favor of virtue is lost."  Be Inspired by the book, Miracles in American History-32 Amazing Stories of Answered Prayer In Paris, John Adams wrote in his diary, June 2, 1778: "In vain are schools, academies, and universities instituted, if loose principles and licentious habits are impressed upon children in their earliest years... The vices and examples of the parents cannot be concealed from the children. How is it possible that children can have any just sense of the sacred obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest infancy...their fathers (are) in as constant infidelity to their mothers?" In Novanglus: A History of the Dispute with America, from its Origin, in 1754, to the Present Time, John Adams wrote: "It is the duty of the clergy to accommodate their discourses to the times, to preach against such sins as are most prevalent, and recommend such virtues as are most wanted... If exorbitant ambition and venality are predominant, ought they not to warn their hearers against those vices? If public spirit is much wanted, should they not inculcate this great virtue? If the rights and duties of Christian magistrates and subjects are disputed, should they not explain them, show their nature, ends, limitations, and restrictions, how much soever it may move the gall of Massachusetts." GET THE NEW DVD - How the Birth of Jesus affected the Calendar On June 21, 1776, John Adams wrote: "Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our people in a greater measure, than they have it now, they may change their rulers and the forms of government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty." 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American Minute with Bill Federer OCT. 29 - Stock Market Crash, 1929

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American Minute with Bill Federer OCT. 29 - Stock Market Crash, 1929 October 29, 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashed. Panic ensued as Wall Street sold 16,410,030 shares in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost and America plunged into the Great Depression. In a drive to aid private relief agencies, October 18, 1931, President Hoover said: "Time and again the American people have demonstrated a spiritual quality of generosity... This is the occasion when we must arouse that idealism, that spirit, from which there can be no failure in this primary obligation of every man to his neighbor..." Hoover continued: "Our country and the world are today involved in more than a financial crisis... This great complex, which we call American life, is builded and can alone survive upon the translation into individual action of that fundamental philosophy announced by the Savior nineteen centuries ago... Our national suffering today is from failure to observe these primary yet inexorable laws of human relationship... Modern society cannot survive with the defense of Cain, 'Am I my brother's keeper?'" Herbert Hoover told the National Drive Committee for Voluntary Relief Agencies, September 15, 1932: "Our tasks are definite...that we maintain the spiritual impulses in our people for generous giving...in the spirit that each is his brother's keeper... Many a family today is carrying a neighbor family over the trough of this depression not alone with material aid but with that encouragement which maintains courage and faith." President Herbert Hoover stated at the Gridiron Club, April 27, 1931: "If we shall be called upon to endure more...we must gird ourselves for even greater effort...May God grant to us the spirit and strength to carry through to the end." Herbert Hoover stated at Valley Forge, May 30, 1931: "If those few thousand men endured that long winter of privation... held their countrymen to the faith, and by that holding held fast the freedom of America, what right have we to be of little faith?" President Franklin D. Roosevelt stated in his First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself...We face our common difficulties. They concern, thank God, only material things... Where there is no vision the people perish (Pr. 29:18)...We face arduous days that lie before us...with...old and precious moral values... In this dedication of a nation we humbly ask the blessing of God. May He protect each and every one of us!"  Be Inspired by the book, Miracles in American History-32 Amazing Stories of Answered Prayer In his Christmas Message, December 24, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt stated: "Of the teachings of Him whose birth we celebrate...the words 'Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself' have taken on a meaning... May the practice of that high ideal grow in us all...For now and for always 'God Bless Us Every One.'" GET THE NEW DVD - How the Birth of Jesus affected the Calendar American Minute archives Watch Faith in History     News from AmericanMinute.com http://www.iecinternational.org/ Get the book, There Really is a Santa Claus-The History of Saint Nicholas & Christmas Holiday Traditions Teach English overseas! a month or a year - and be paid! - Find out MORE here  Visit the American Minute archive   Click here to shop AMERICAN MINUTE store Read the Daily Reading at: http://www.biblegateway.com/reading-plans/old-new-testament/2013//10/29 Receive the daily American Minute on your Facebook wall, Twitter feed, or RSS reader.  Get a great book and help a great cause: James Nyondo's Absolute Integrity: The Bridge to Your Destiny Please support the American Minute.   Click here to make a donation. Thank you!    American Minute is a registered trademark. Permission is granted to forward. reprint or duplicate with acknowledgement to vwww.AmericanMinute.com

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