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How Lincoln Gave Us Kwanzaa, by Joseph Sobran, The Reactionary Utopian, 7 Dec 2006
"According to Lincoln, the Declaration 'brought forth a new nation.' That is plainly not true. The Declaration says nothing about a 'nation'; it speaks only of 13 'Free and Independent States.' It is, in fact, a declaration of secession! The 13 states are serving notice that they are pulling out of the British Empire." |
Lincoln’s Presidential Warrant to Arrest Chief Justice Roger B. Taney: 'A Great Crime' or a Fabrication?, by Charles Adams, 5 Jan 2004
"... during those chaotic first months of the Civil War, it would not have been so unthinkable to arrest and silence Taney. The military arrested people in all walks of life. ... Lincoln expressed that policy to a Chicago clergyman: 'As commander in chief of the army and navy, in time of war, I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy.'" |
A House Undivided Cannot Stand, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, 3 Jun 2006
Related Topics: Founding Fathers, United States Declaration of Independence, Serbia
"... Abraham Lincoln's famous political buzz-line that 'a house divided cannot stand' is sheer nonsense that flatly contradicts the thinking of the founding fathers. It was nevertheless helpful in his crusade to crush the system of divided sovereignty (i.e., states' rights) that they had created in the hope that that system would preserve American liberty." |
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Democracy Versus Liberty [PDF], by James Bovard, The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Aug 2006
Related Topics: Democracy, Bill of Rights, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson
"Abraham Lincoln was by far the most avid champion of democracy among nineteenth-century presidents—and the president with the greatest visible contempt for the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. He swayed people to view national unity as the ultimate test of the essence of freedom." |
Emergencies: The Breeding Ground of Tyranny, by William L. Anderson, Freedom Daily, Nov 2006
Related Topics: Government, Woodrow Wilson
"... no one truly claimed 'emergency' powers until Abraham Lincoln, who in 1861 suspended habeas corpus, ordered the arrest of thousands of people, and held others without trial. ... he established a number of precedents that demonstrated that if a president wishes to cross the line of legality, there is little to stop him from doing so." |
How Much Do You Know About Liberty? (a quiz), The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, Jun 1996
Related Topics: Liberty, Bill of Rights, Entrepreneurship, John Hancock, Right to Trial by Jury, War
"How many slaves were liberated by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation? ... The Emancipation Proclamation didn't free a single slave. President Lincoln issued it on September 22, 1862, and it applied only to slaves in the rebel South—then beyond Union control. The aim of this war measure was to help stir insurrection in the South. ..." |
The Federal War on Gold, Part 2, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Freedom Daily, Sep 2006
Related Topics: Money, Stephen Johnson Field
"What did 'legal tender' mean? ... it meant ... Americans would be required to accept the federal government's paper money as a medium of exchange. Why was that important to Abraham Lincoln? Like so many other government officials in history, Lincoln was resorting to the printing press — inflation — to finance his war expenditures." |
The Latest Defamation of Jefferson, by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, 31 Mar 2006
Related Topics: Thomas Jefferson
"... Lincoln's law partner William Herndon once said that Lincoln 'hated Jefferson' as a man and as a president. ... Lincoln eviscerated constitutional liberty by illegally suspending habeas corpus, shutting down the opposition press, imprisoning thousands of political opponents, confiscating firearms, and many other atrocities." |
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The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Walter E. Williams (Foreword), 2002
Related Topic: American War Between the States |
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