Reagan on Freedom

Aug 212010

I don’t present this as the greatest speech of Reagan’s career, only a good one; one that is relevant for our times.

The mindset that the country faces today is not unique. Reagan warned about it 46 years ago!

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. Friedrich Hayek
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed. Thomas Jefferson
When the government controls religion, not only religious liberty but all liberty becomes a chimera. When the government controls health, not only medical liberty but all liberty becomes a chimera. Thomas Szasz
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for. Will Rogers
The main and only concern of the Austrian economists was to contribute to the advancement of economics. They never tried to win the support of anybody by other means than by the convincing power developed in their books and articles. Ludwig von Mises
All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it Mark Twain

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