Friday, September 18, 2009

Liberty vs. Tyranny

On the back of Mark Levin's tremendous book "Liberty and Tyranny, a Conservative Manifesto" is a quote by President Abraham Lincoln. This is a very appropriate quote for the politics of this nation when Liberal Statists and Republican "Neo-Statists" are watching the demise of our great Republic.

Lincoln wrote: "We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word, we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for mean to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name-liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names-liberty and tyranny."

President Lincoln is in short criticizing BIG INTRUSIVE and Socialist government while supporting liberty and a free market system. Our politicians need to stop pandering to those who seek to redistribute our wealth and start focusing on making America an even freer and stronger free market nation. Unfortunately, while the Democratic Party believes in the "doing as they want with the other man's labor" the Republicans have been guilty of much of the same. Enough is enough! We must fight for the preservation of our values and the salvation of our Republic.