Greg Raven – Uncommon Sense

Socialism as slavery

No man will labor for himself who can make another labor for him.

Preserving liberty through knowledge

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have … a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers.

The society we want

We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society – not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

Ruling through fraud and force

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Freedom is not a reward

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne … Oh no! It’s a … long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

Government expands at will

The government expands at will, based on what might be charitably called flimsy constitutional reasoning and less charitably and more accurately called arrogant judicial tyranny. Government authority these days rarely comes from the Constitution as written but from the last carefully crafted misinterpretation of it. This is called legal precedent.

Collective immorality

How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist urges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.

Author: Greg Raven