U.S. History

Pages 260-264 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.

Pages 252-254 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.

Pages 265-268 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.

Pages 255-259 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley.

In the literature of the American Revolution there is no demagogic attempt to set human rights against property rights.

There is no surer guide to the principles of political liberty than the Federalist Papers; no more penetrating and imaginative study of the forces that may wreck or sap liberty than de Tocqueville's great classic.

Now that our country is expected to be the foremost champion of the “free world” (for how long and at what cost nobody knows), it has b

What we must think about, if we deserve to be free, is that sooner or later, as a result of its very nature, either its socialism or its democracy will have to yield.

The private sector can't do this, which is precisely why all the stuff that makes life worth living is produced privately, and all that the government does is slow down the progress of civilization and bring destruction and disaster wherever it goes.

Once the war began, Lincoln conducted himself as a thoroughgoing dictator, and DiLorenzo gives a full account of the president's suppression of civil liberties.