By Bradley Harrington “Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.” — Calvin Coolidge, “Holy Name Society Address,” 1924 — Last week, in an open letter to a local student, I defined “individual liberty” as our “right to our own thoughts and lives, as well as …
By Bradley Harrington “What I’m looking for is not out there, it’s in me.” — Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life,” 1903 — It isn’t often a letter by a 5th-grader will really make me ponder things, but the one by Kearra Siler (“People need to stop being stubborn, …
By Bradley Harrington “It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.” — Thomas Jefferson, “Notes on Virginia,” 1782 — A few weeks back, I observed that “Wyoming, additionally, has the highest per-capita proportion of government workers as well, with fully 22.4 percent of …
By Bradley Harrington “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much … is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” — …
