Fear is the Foundation of Government Power
By Michael Boldin
A culture of obedience and compliance guarantees that government will never stop growing – and defiance and nullification represent the “rightful remedy” to usurpations of power. But today, many people live in fear – and never take the steps needed to help advance liberty.
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- Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Thomas Paine (11 July 1789)
- Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (1788)
- Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (5 Nov 1772)
- Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolves (1765)
- James Madison – On Nullification (Dec 1834)
- Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 33
- Samuel Adams – Candidus in the Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)
- James Madison – Virginia Resolutions (21 Dec 1798)
- John Dickinson – Fabius IV (19 Apr 1788)
- James Madison – Federalist 46
- Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions Fair Copy (1798)
- James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (1788)
- John Adams – Thoughts on Government (1776)
- Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part II (1792)
- John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)
- Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)
- James Otis, Jr. – (11 Jan 1762)
- James Otis, Jr – Freeborn American (27 Apr 1767)
- Walt Whitman’s Caution