What are People Saying About Liberty and Prosperity?

   Here is a look at the various views people have of the principles of liberty and prosperity.

   Andrew C. McCarthy of National Review Online opines:

After 14 centuries, there is no secular democratic tradition in Islamic society. Given that secular democracy is the best guarantor of liberty and prosperity, is it not self-evident that some precinct of theummah would have adopted it by now, without any help from us, if Islamic society were innately receptive?

Mr. McCarthy states that the form of government most receptive to liberty and prosperity is a secular democracy. 

   CATO Institute operates The Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, which was established to promote a better understanding around the world of the benefits of market-liberal policy solutions to combat some of the most pressing problems faced by developing nations.

   Skepticlawyer presents Tyler Cowen’s thoughts:

[Cowan] then moved into territory that is politically dangerous, but needs to be addressed: one of the things that helps promote both liberty and prosperitythroughout the Anglosphere is citizens’ widespread ability to be loyal to a set of abstract concepts. 

Replace “abstract concepts” with the highest political ideals of humanity and we come closer to the truth. 

   SCREAMIN FREEDOM writes:

The fight against the use of silver and gold as money that has been waged by bankers and rogue politicians since the 1870s as to silver and the 1930s as to gold — and will intensify as fiat currencies collapse throughout the world — is ultimately directed against America’s national independence, her constitutional government, and every common American’s individual liberty and prosperity. (Edwin Vieira, Jr.)

Here a link is drawn between sound currency and liberty and prosperity.

   Artemio V. Panganiban argues for liberty and prosperity in the Philippines under the rule of law:

Rule of law. Liberty and prosperity should be implemented only in accordance with the Constitution and the law. The Charter commands that “no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”

It is delightful to read of our brethren fighting for liberty and prosperity internationally.

   Back to the domestic scene, Divine Economy Consulting comments on Ron Paul’s current book, the best-selling Manifesto:

Hungry and young (at heart) minds are being nourished and nurtured by the ideas of liberty and prosperity that are outlined and detailed in this book by Ron Paul. He is a scholar of classical liberalism which also implies that he is a scholar of free market economics.

Dr. Paul’s book pays much attention to the fundamental connection between liberty and prosperity.

   Thus concludes the first Internet tour for liberty and prosperity principles on the web.  Look forward to more tours to come.