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In the long and storied history of the struggle for liberty, “the speech” of March 23, 1775, in that Richmond church surely ranks as one of the most memorable orations of all time. Spanish translation here: https://informeorwell.com/cultura/dame-libertad-o-dame-muerte-250-anos-despues/.
According to the Big Government crowd, spending is only “multiplied” when the politicians and their beneficiaries do it. That smacks of self-serving alchemy.
Most Americans aren’t fools. They know the Democrats didn’t lift a finger on waste, fraud and abuse when they could have. But it’s worse than that.
In an ancient Roman context, the Ides of March evokes a story of bloodshed and tyranny. In an American context, however, March 15 should be remembered as a remarkable day in which the character of a great man saved a nation.
Calvin Coolidge remains the only President of the United States in the last 200 years to leave the federal government smaller than the day he took the job.
The Communist Manifesto is gobbledygook writ large as if cooked up by nincompoops. (The article also appears here: https://tinyurl.com/2azyp9t7).
Like almost everybody today, I use a digital camera and haven’t bought a roll of film in decades. But my first camera, back in 1960, was a Kodak Box Brownie.
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.