One of the most classic signs of tyranny is when the people dare not publicly criticize their own government. But even the regimes that most violently crushed all dissent and criticism pretended to support freedom of speech.... - [More]

Posted: May 1, 2013 in Documentary, Recommended

LibertarianismDotOrg | George H. Smith’s lecture series on American history, given at Dartmouth College in 1983.... - [More]

Posted: December 26, 2012 in Videos

lib.unc.edu | Editorial written anonymously by a “southern spy” decrying Abraham Lincoln a despot for his alleged violations of civil liberties. “A citizen remaining in the Union is no longer free,” the writer suggests.... - [More]

Posted: June 2, 2011 in Articles

LewRockwell.com | “I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.” ~ Abraham Lincoln, Debate with Stephen Douglas, Sept. 18, 1858, in Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 1832-1858 (New York: Library of America, 1989), pp. 636-637.... - [More]

Posted: April 15, 2011 in Articles