Freedom

[1] Gibran, Khalil. The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul. Trans. Juan R.I. Cole. Ed. Robin H. Waterfield. New York: Penguin, 1997.

[2] Stoll, Ira. Samuel Adams: A Life. New York: Free Press, 2008. 24.

[3] Stoll, Ira. Samuel Adams: A Life. New York: Free Press, 2008. 8.

[4] Pearsall, Judy, and Bill Trumble, eds. “Freedom.” Def. 1,2,3,4. Oxford English Reference Dictionary. 2, Revised ed. 2002.

[5] Hayek, Friedrich A. Von. The Road to Serfdom. 5 Anniversary ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1994.

[6] Hayek, Friedrich A. Von. The Road to Serfdom. 5 Anniversary ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1994. 17, 262.

[7] Lehman, David, ed.  The Oxford Book of American Poetry.  New York: Oxford UP USA, 2006.

[8] Jefferson, Thomas, and John P. Kaminski. The Quotable Jefferson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2006.  373.

[9] See Victor Frankl’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning, to see what he learned about these things in a Nazi concentration camp.

[10] Roosevelt, Franklin D. “Third Inaugural Address.” Presidential Inauguration. U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. 20 Jan. 1941. Address.

[11] From the Biblical Book 2 Corinthians, Chapter 3 Verse 17.  The apostle Paul also tells us that “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.” (Galations 5:10)

[12] According to Thomas Sowell, as many Europeans as black Africans were taken into slavery between 1500-1800.  See Sowell, Thomas. Economic Facts and Fallacies. New York: Basic, 2008. 161.

[13] Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract. New York: Penguin, 2006.

[14] In the relentless allegory of George Orwell’s Animal Farm.

[15] The Declaration of Independence

[16] See, for example, the Bible’s book of Galatians, chapter 5, verses 1 and 13

[17] Carter, James. “Inaugural Address.” Presidential Inauguration. U.S. Capitol
Building, Washington, D.C. 20 Jan. 1977. Address.

[18]  Johnson, Paul. A History of the American People. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1998. 116.

[19] Let Freedom Reign: The Words of Nelson Mandela.  Northampton, MA: Interlink, 2010.

[20] Wilson, Woodrow. “Speech before Congress.” U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. 2 Apr. 1917. Speech.

[21] Tocqueville, Alexis De, and J. P. Mayer. Democracy in America. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1988.

[22] Tocqueville, Alexis De, and J. P. Mayer. Democracy in America. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1988.

[23] Jefferson, Thomas, and John P. Kaminski. The Quotable Jefferson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2006.  139.

[24]  Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 197.

[25] Decartes, Rene. Discourse on the Method for Conducting One’s Reason Well and Seeking Truth in the Sciences. Trans. Donald A. Cress. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, Co. 1998.

[26] The Declaration of Independence

[27] McKenzie, E.C. Mac’s Giant Book of Quips & Quotes. Eugene: Harvest House Publishers. 1986.

[28] Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.  The Social Contract and the First and Second Discourses.  Susan Dunn, ed.  New Haven: Yale UP, 2002.

[29] Wesley, John. “The Use of Money.” John Wesley’s Sermons: An Anthology. Ed. Albert Cook Outler and Richard P. Heitzenrater. Nashville: Abingdon, 1991. 347-58.

[30] Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Dir. Frank Capra. Screenplay by Sidney Buchman. Perf. James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Claude Raines. Sony Pictures, 1939.

[31] Paine, Thomas. Rights of Man. Ed. Claire Grogan. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 2011.

[32] Lombardi, Vince.  What It Takes to Be #1.  New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2003.

[33] Cook, Reginald L. “The Stand of Robert Frost, Early and Late.” The English Journal 48.5 (1959): 233-41.

[34] Cervantes, Saavedra Miguel De. Don Quixote. Trans. Peter Anthony Motteux. New York: Knopf, 1991.

[35] As quoted in Shlaes, Amity. The Forgotten Man: a New History of the Great Depression. New York: HarperCollins, 2007. 19.

[36] A memorable line from the classic movie Support Your Local Sherrif. Dir. Burt Kennedy. By William Bowers. Perf. James Garner. MGM/UA Home Entertainment, 2002.

[37] “Abreit macht frei” was a slogan posted outside several Nazi concentration camps, including Aushwitz I.  See, Gutman, Israel. Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan Pub., 1990.

[38] Jefferson, Thomas, and John P. Kaminski. The Quotable Jefferson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2006.  215.

[39] Thoreau, Henry David. Civil Disobedience. New York: Classic America, 2009.

[40] Durant, Will, and Ariel Durant. Lessons of History. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2010. 61.

[41] Hill, Roland. Lord Acton. New Haven: Yale UP, 2000.

[42] As quoted in Hayek, Friedrich A. Von. The Road to Serfdom. 5 Anniversary ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1994. 78.

[43] Mill, John S. J. S. Mill: On Liberty and Other Writings. Ed. Stefen Collini. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989. 6, 9.

[44] Madison, James. Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 1984.

[45] Hayek, Friedrich A. Von. The Road to Serfdom. 50th Anniversary ed. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1994. xxxix.

[46] Schweikart, Larry. Seven Events That Made America America: and Proved That the Founding Fathers Were Right All along. New York: Sentinel, 2010.

[47] Copeland, Lewis, Lawrence W. Lamm, and Stephen J. McKenna, eds. The World’s Great Speeches. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1999.

[48] Ketcham, Ralph Louis. The Anti-Federalist Papers; The Constitutional Convention Debates. New York: Signet Classic, 2003.

[49] Mill, John S. J. S. Mill: On Liberty and Other Writings. Ed. Stefen Collini. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989. 16.

[50] Peterson, Eugene H. The Message: the Bible in Contemporary Language. Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2002. 2113.

[51] Wootton, David. The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 2003.