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A Free People’s Suicide: Sustainable Freedom and the American Future is unavailable, but you can change that!

"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide." Abraham Lincoln Nothing is more daring in the American experiment than the founders' belief that the American republic could remain free forever. But how was this to be done, and are Americans doing it today? It is not enough for freedom to be won....

Liberty” is not to be found in courts, laws and constitutions alone. “Liberty lives in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to save it. While it lives there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.”13 The nation’s structures of liberty must always be balanced by the spirit of liberty, and the laws of the land by the habits of the heart. All of which means there is a deep irony in play today. Many educated people who scorn
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