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Monday, December 11. 2017

George Mason's Birthday today


 From George Mason's Powerful Words About Liberty:



 Because of his seminal recognition that rights do not originate from government, George Mason deserves more attention. In Robert Rutland’s words, he wrote “on behalf of… the birthrights of every free American… man’s native freedom from restraint unless he threatened or did harm to others.” As a consequence, “His ideas became permeating facts” at America’s founding. They need to again permeate Americans’ thoughts if we are to revive the liberty he helped create.


The vision of liberty the founders envisioned will never be seen again, anywhere. Sad. They gave it their best shot, for sure. Freedom and self-reliance go against man's slavish and dependent nature. Being heroic men in a heroic time and place, they overestimated the strengths and virtues in human nature.
Posted by The Barrister in Politics at 18:35 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Was on campus at George Mason Univ this morning. No one mentioned it :-(
#1 DrTorch on 2017-12-11 21:16 (Reply)
Indeed, though I, for one, have not lost hope.
#2 steve walsh on 2017-12-12 06:39 (Reply)
It will be seen again. Once done never means "never" again. After all in the time of Scipio Africanus, many would have legitimately thought there would never be his like again, yes not exactly, but there came a Caesar.
What they promoted is to put in their words "an eternal torch" which at times burns very low. But it is always picked up refreshed and born again,
To say it will never happen again is in my mind an egotistical conceit.
#3 Sennacherib on 2017-12-12 06:46 (Reply)
"...man's slavish and dependent nature"? Speak for yourself.
#4 snopercod on 2017-12-12 06:50 (Reply)
I can see why you would think that it won't happen again. The current political climate gives one little hope.

But I haven't given up completely.
#5 Dangerous Dean on 2017-12-12 08:37 (Reply)
The first shot lasted until FDR put 8 justices on the USSC and they invented the "living Constitution," so let's not be too disheartened. We just need a solid course correction, probably with a few amendments. And, we don't have slavery anymore, so that's a plus.
#6 Thomas Doubting (Link) on 2017-12-13 00:34 (Reply)

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