More Liberty Means Less Government

In this collection of thoughtful, hard-hitting essays, Walter E. Williams once again takes on the left wing's most sacred cows with provocative insights, brutal candor, and an uncompromising reverence for personal liberty and the principles laid out in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

In this collection of thoughtful, hard-hitting essays, Walter E. Williams once again takes on the left wing's most sacred cows with provocative insights, brutal candor, and an uncompromising reverence for personal liberty and the principles laid out in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the timeIn an essay on freedom, the first is the clear definition of what is meant by freedom and what it refers to. For freedom, and already on the first line of the first page, Stuart Mill defines "social or civil liberty, that is, the nature and limits of the power that society can legitimately exercise over the individual." In other words, the right of the individual to dissent from the collective and the obligation of this collective to defend the right to discrepancy. Stuart Mill denounces "the tyranny of the majority" among the evils, against which society must be put on guard. (...) or if he dictates them (the decrees) with regard to things in which he should not mix, he exercises a more formidable social tyranny than many political oppressions, ... he leaves less means to escape from it, for he penetrates much more into the details of life and comes to chain the soul ".And what things should not be mixed society, according to Stuart Mill? On the thought, on the expression, on the decisions of individual life, on any aspect that limits the individuality. In short, the individual must be free to decide who he wants to pray, if he wants to pray; who wants to love, if he wants to love; whom you admire, if you want to admire; against who or what to fight, if he wants to fight. The only limit Stuart Mill finds to freedom is harm to another. The only limit that governments and society can impose on an individual is precisely that this freedom is aimed at harming other members of society. Thus, the individual can shout for the death of the members of the government, without this having to intervene, until the moment that this or another individual takes direct actions to carry out this idea, that is, the death of the members of the government .

In this selected collection of his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter Williams offers his sometimes controversial views on education, health, the environment, government, law and society, race, and a range of other topics. Although many of these essays focus on the growth of government and our loss of liberty, many others demonstrate how the tools of freemarket economics can be used to improve our lives in ways ordinary people can understand.

In Liberty Defined, congressman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date. The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere cliché. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most importantly, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of liberty? Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits people to work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions. It is the seed of America. This is a comprehensive guide to Dr. Paul's position on fifty of the most important issues of our times, from Abortion to Zionism. Accessible, easy to digest, and fearless in its discussion of controversial topics, LIBERTY DEFINED sheds new light on a word that is losing its shape.

Libertarian Mark Grannis explains why so many of the best things in life expand when government shrinks; why less government means more liberty, more prosperity, and more security. Instead of approaching every social problem with the unstated assumption that there must be a government solution, Grannis argues in this collection of essays that we can take care of ourselves and each other with much less government "help" than politicians have tried to give us.

Throughout history, personal liberty, free markets, and peaceable, voluntary exchanges have been roundly denounced by tyrants and often greeted with suspicion by the general public. Unfortunately, Americans have increasingly accepted the tyrannical ideas of reduced private property rights and reduced rights to profits, and have become enamored with restrictions on personal liberty and control by government. In this latest collection of essays selected from his syndicated newspaper columns, Walter E. Williams takes on a range of controversial issues surrounding race, education, the environment, the Constitution, health care, foreign policy, and more. Skewering the self-righteous and self-important forces throughout society, he makes the case for what he calls the "the moral superiority of personal liberty and its main ingredient—limited government." With his usual straightforward insights and honesty, Williams reveals the loss of liberty in nearly every important aspect of our lives, the massive decline in our values, and the moral tragedy that has befallen Americans today: our belief that it is acceptable for the government to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another.