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To: loveliberty2
Sowell gets to the essence of things quickly, doesn't he?

Yes he does and he does it consistently.

Dr. Sowell started speaking out against Obama nearly a year before the general election and he didn't waste any time speaking out against Romney on this go around. He's been right on the money with both and hasn't changed his views in the least with either.

Good post, Romney doesn't have the ability to inspire patriots due to his lack of vision.

17 posted on 03/17/2012 12:51:19 PM PDT by jazusamo (Character assassination is just another form of voter fraud: Thomas Sowell)
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To: jazusamo
Thank God that Sowell has a newspaper column for reaching the "masses" who are able and willing to read the wisdom of a truly great American intellectual.

Each, and all, of us, however, must find whatever means we can utilize to expose as many potential voters as we can reach with a glimpse of the "vision" America's Founders had for this place on the globe.

Their vision was for a place were Creator-endowed human beings, reacting to the call of the Supreme Being in their own consciences, and being aware of what they called "natural law," could live together with one another in "peace, liberty, and safety," (Jefferson's First Inaugural) under a system of self-government, whose elected "People's" representatives would be "bound down by the chains of the Constitution" (Jefferson again) they framed and adopted in 1787.

Love and respect for their unprecedented work and sacrifices have motivated millions of America's finest to join the founding generation in being willing to sacrifice their own "lives, property, and sacred honor" across these 200+ years.

Today, with the so-called "progressives," there is no "vision" for liberty--only a utopian dream of equality in misery under a political elite throughout the globe.

Here is an excerpt from a late-19th Century essay, which can be read at the Liberty Fund Library here.

"Freedom is the most valuable of all human possessions, next after life itself. It is more valuable, in a manner, than even health. No human agency can secure health; but good laws, justly administered, can and do secure freedom. Freedom, indeed, is almost the only thing that law can secure. Law cannot secure equality, nor can it secure prosperity. In the direction of equality, all that law can do is to secure fair play, which is equality of rights but is not equality of conditions. In the direction of prosperity, all that law can do is to keep the road open. That is the Quintessence of Individualism, and it may fairly challenge comparison with that Quintessence of Socialism we have been discussing. Socialism, disguise it how we may, is the negation of Freedom. That it is so, and that it is also a scheme not capable of producing even material comfort in exchange for the abnegations of Freedom, I think the foregoing considerations amply prove." EDWARD STANLEY ROBERTSON

Today is the day in America when the battle of ideas between Freedom and Socialism must be engaged by competent, knowledgeable spokesmen and spokeswomen who are presidential candidates.

That is why the topic of this thread is so very important to freedom lovers everywhere.

21 posted on 03/17/2012 2:43:02 PM PDT by loveliberty2
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