Anybody expecting such a "guarantee" from democracy is a naive moron. And Mr. Smuts' and his ilk have proved that the loser organization he helped found, with such a design built into its core, cannot guarantee against war either.

This is how we'll defeat Liberals and their Socialist agenda. Simple, common sense words. At least to those Americans who want to be free. Cavuto's perty good......

I give it only 3 stars because the first part is true but not the second. Many, many Americans will know exactly how this country became a Socialist Constitutional Republic. Some I read above. But we were outvoted. Just that simple. At least until the pendulum swings back our way - slowly.

The categories our Canadian friends chose for this group of 3 "Liberty" quotes should read Jealousy, Class Warfare, Envy, and Whining.

Absolutely right.

Sometimes I think our Canadian friends working this site lose track of what I thought the purpose is/was.

Anonymous of Reston has it right. Nock is woefully ignorant. I just hope nobody has to depend on Nock (or people like him) to defend anything in the near future.

....more meaningless tripe from the moron who made the Corvair his whipping boy. Moron.

It's been over 140 years and the Republic is not destroyed. If you took all the "wealth" from those who have "it" and gave it those who don't, the people you took it from would have it all back in 5 years. [credit Neal Boortz] Spare me the Doom and Gloom Cycle here.

There must be more to this than appears here. Buy Low-Sell High and Caveat Emptor are not difficult concepts. Capitalism is not inimical to my interests any more than communism is beneficial to them. Take your risks baby and then pay the piper!

How is this quote relevant to Liberty?

Again why I love the Founding Fathers. And as for schools, it is only slightly ironic that the first quote, ref NW Ordinance of 1787 actually is the initiating event of American Public Schools. You get what you pay for. My sons went to Catholic school in their youth that I paid for. And those that doubt internal invaders....just wait till somewhere in America a group is allowed to try their own kind in Sharia Law and not the law[s] of the city, state, and country in which they live. Just wait My Friends, it's coming and they're coming for you too.

This why Economists need to stick to fuzzilating about The Dismal Science and let others commit and make the ultimate sacrifice keeping people free.

This woman could be a child of an American Civil War veteran. I just wonder if she would have preferred we kept our black brethren enslaved for her own lifetime. Morons - all of 'em.

This Socialist Moron is alive to make idiotic statements like this by the Blood of better men and women than he.

My Individualist Heroine....even if flawed, like us all in life. Agree with Carlton that Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, etc all should be must reading in High Schools.

This is quite good. In line with one of Eleanor Roosevelt's that I like - paraphrased... The only person who can take away your dignity is you.

I don't give a dam* who speaks to us if it has a molecule's effect on my freedom and security. They can keep their hot air and pompous bufoonery while enslaved. Those, like Rogers, [whose humor is otherwise worth listening to] who want to sing Kumbaaya with cowards and tyrants can just... well, you know.

This is why I love the Founding Fathers. And agree with Pastor Eldridge. My own little saying is "There are no new lessons, only new generations to learn them."

Cooper is one of my 19th c Heroes. And he's right here too.

I love the Founding Fathers and Ben is right about beer being proof that God wants us to be happy. Happy New Year from Baghdad everybody!!!

Shaw should stick to being a comic dramatist - whatever that is. I prefer, any day, that other guy be indifferent to me than put 2 rounds thru my brain or cut my throat.

Albert was brilliant but not correct when it comes to religion[s]. And everybody knows exactly what I mean.

..and if you live in perpetual fear of making value judgements [like America is great and {pick a repressive country from column A>D} is not] then you'll not have anything worth knowing or teaching your children anyway.

But Shaw certainly puts another reality to that previous quote about suppression of freedom being most abominable in a university. Only morons believe that -- and they'd stand by and wring their hands and pull their hair while people got locked up and beaten for expressing themselves.