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Posted by Sheri on 01/24/09
Here's a fascinating little quiz to see how "up" you are on principles of liberty. Please take it. You are sure to learn a lot! Then answer the poll at the bottom of this blog. Also check out the fantastic reading list!
http://www.fredericbastiat.com/libcert.htm
Categories: Education, Civil Liberties, History, Just For Fun, Economy
Tags: Libertarian, quiz, Bastiat, mises
Showing comments 1—7 of 7
Posted 01/28/09
bobjones68
Schaumburg, IL | Thanks for the quiz Sheri. A newbie to Libertarianism and scored a 90 -- guess I can't complain.
Bob |
Posted 03/30/09
clint4liberty
Louiisville, KY | I truly appreciate you placing this quiz on the cfl web site. |
Posted 04/27/09
KyPete
Louisville, KY | Thanks for the quiz Sheri. It was very enlightening.
KyPete |
Posted 04/27/09
MichaelBarry
Sebring, FL | It was fun. I made embaressing mistakes and only scored a 97. |
Posted 06/22/09
sandralynn
Eastview, KY | I'd love to help, but I'm up to my eyeballs coordinating Continental Congress 2009. Best of Luck!
Sandra Yeager |
Posted 06/22/09
sandralynn
Eastview, KY | What must a free people do?
The founders told us...
But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
- Declaration of Independence
Continental Congress 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwOjrHGC_aU
It is our Right; It is our duty!
http://www.givemeliberty.org/state/ky |
Posted 10/11/09
big dog187
Paducah, KY | Hi Ms. Sheri I just finished taking the quiz mamm and I scored a 53 on it! I feel kinda sad right now. The results tell me I need to spend some more time at the library. Thanks it was fun....
P.S.
At least more than a couple times a month any way, but I digress!!!! |
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Posted by Sheri on 10/16/08
I always wondered what would happen if we refused to cooperate with tyranny. After all, THEY are not some nameless, faceless Big Brother. THEY are people like you and me who carry out the actions of despotism. What if no one would work for the IRS? What if no one would spy on their fellow countrymen or carry out unconstitutional edicts?
Do we do this to ourselves?
"You let yourselves be deprived before your own eyes of the best part
of your revenues; your fields are plundered, your homes robbed, your
family heirlooms taken away. You live in such a way that you cannot
claim a single thing as your own; and it would seem that you consider
yourselves lucky to be loaned your property, your families, and your
very lives.
All this havoc, this misfortune, this ruin, descends upon you not
from alien foes, but from the one enemy whom you yourselves render as
powerful as he is, for whom you go bravely to war, for whose greatness
you do not refuse to offer your own bodies unto death.
He who thus domineers over you has only two eyes, only two hands, only
one body, no more than is possessed by the least man among the
infinite numbers dwelling in your cities; he has indeed nothing more
than the power that you confer upon him to destroy you.
Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not
provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you
with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down
your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own?
How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he
dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you? What could he do to
you if you yourselves did not connive with the thief who plunders you,
if you were not accomplices of the murderer who kills you, if you were
not traitors to yourselves?
You sow your crops in order that he may ravage them, you install and
furnish your homes to give him goods to pillage; you rear your
daughters that he may gratify his lust; you bring up your children in
order that he may confer upon them the greatest privilege he knows to
be led into his battles, to be delivered to butchery, to be made the
servants of his greed and the instruments of his vengeance; you yield
your bodies unto hard labor in order that he may indulge in his
delights and wallow in his filthy pleasures; you weaken yourselves in
order to make him the stronger and the mightier to hold you in check.
From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would
not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking
action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more,
and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the
tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer;
then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has
been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces." --
Étienne La Boétie
Categories: Civil Liberties, Philosophy, Revolution, Socialism
Tags: tyranny, boetie, Big Brother
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Posted 06/22/09
sandralynn
Eastview, KY | What must a free people do?
The founders told us...
But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.
- Declaration of Independence
Continental Congress 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwOjrHGC_aU
It is our Right; It is our duty!
http://www.givemeliberty.org/state/ky |
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