Biographies

Recorded at Jekyll Island, Georgia; 27 February 2010.

Presented by Ron Paul at the “Birth and Death of the Fed” conference at Jekyll Island, Georgia, 27 Febuary 2010.

Recorded at Jekyll Island, Georgia; 26 February 2010.

"Every tyranny must necessarily be grounded upon general popular acceptance."

Paine became a privateer in 1753 to locate and rob enemy ships in order to escape his family business - corset making. The blunt but brilliant Paine was helped by Benjamin Franklin to join the American Revolution as editor and writer. Common Sense was a huge success...

"The default position of the world is despotism. In the sweep of things, liberty is the exception."

John Calvin's social and economic views closely parallel Luther's, and there is no point in repeating them here. There are only two main areas of difference: their views on usury, and on the concept of the "calling."

Ultimately, he and the woman are caught, imprisoned, and tortured. In the end, he is sincerely repentant of his crimes and is completely devoted to the all-encompassing government that has done him all this harm.

"In Thomist thought, reason and empiricism are not separated but allied and interwoven. Truth is built up by reason on a solid groundwork in empirically known reality. The rational and empirical were integrated into one coherent whole."

Americans had no overall plan. They had something more important. They had personal freedom to plan their own affairs; and the avalanche of human energy resulting from that freedom swept from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande.