The Second Amendment is timeless for our Founders grasped that self-defense is three-fold: every free individual must protect themselves against the evil will of the man, the mob and the state.

It was because ‘in 1776 our fathers retired the gods from politics.’ The basic principle of the American Republic is the freedom of man in society.The Declaration of Independence was the product of Intellectual Emancipation,...

free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.

Yes here’s to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn’t want to pay taxes…

One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.

Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.

How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

The answer to 1984 is 1776

For this end, we must be knit together in this work as one man, we must entertain each other in brotherly affection, we must be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities for the...

If they can over come, so will I!” When you know the ghosts that stand in support of you, you can begin to see life as they did—a life of joy, possibilities and freedom.

If I formed the questions correctly, then perhaps the immediate answer might be in the vein of earlier responses to questions of what is right or wrong; that is, that there is not a clear-cut...

Give me liberty or give me death.”[From a speech given at Saint John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in...

New Englanders began the Revolution not to institute reforms and changes in the order of things, but to save the institutions and customs that already had become old and venerable with them; and were new...

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline...

We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody’s business nobody’s business.

…Defeat appears to me preferable to total Inaction.

True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.

By their actions, the Founding Fathers made clear that their primary concern was religious freedom, not the advancement of a state religion. Individuals, not the government, would define religious faith and practice in the United...

democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have...

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called...

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expense of it,” [John] Adams wrote. “There should not be a district of one mile...

The primary leaders of the so-called founding fathers of our nation were not Bible-believing Christians; they were deists. Deism was a philosophical belief that was widely accepted by the colonial intelligentsia at the time of...

We struggle for freedom every day of our lives. From our founding fathers to the Civil War through the suffrage movement, the American civil rights movement and today with the Patriot Act. Frankly, it’s a...