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The 1924 presidential election was a colorful one, featuring a record 103 nomination ballots and the Democratic convention and the Republican victory of the Coolidge-Dawes ticket in November.
Neither the Congress nor the President of today possesses the courage of a Franklin Pierce on the matter of spending, even as the national debt is on track to hit $50 trillion before this decade is out.
The dollar is no longer “as good as gold” because government mismanages money just as it mismanages almost everything else.
Any nation founded on a promise of freedom must be reminded constantly of what freedom is all about, as well as how rare and precious it is. Here are some of my favorite quotes on the subject.
Unless you have reason to believe the culprits in Washington are going to fix this on their own, consider the Article V option seriously.
The so-called “reforms” were far-reaching, to be sure, but they were also quintessentially authoritarian.
About Lawrence W. Reed
Lawrence W. (“Larry”) Reed became president of FEE in 2008 after serving as chairman of its board of trustees in the 1990s and both writing and speaking for FEE since the late 1970s. Prior to becoming FEE’s president, he served for 21 years as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. He also taught economics full-time from 1977 to 1984 at Northwood University in Michigan and chaired its department of economics from 1982 to 1984.
A champion for liberty, Reed has authored nearly 2,000 newspaper columns and articles and dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the United States and abroad. He has visited 87 countries.