Fall 1997 Issue

 

IN THIS ISSUE

Founding Fathers

Because Ideas Have Consequences
by Wayne Hage, Jr.

Our Very Own KGB?
by Paul M. Weyrich

ESA Reauthorization: Not Now, Not Ever!
by Glenna Hodge

Climate Change Treaty

An End Run Around The Takings Clause!
by Jim Burling

Mortgaging our Liberty ... Incrementally 
by Wayne Hage

A Federal Web of Environmental Control
by Fred Kelly Grant

Liberty or Death

 

 

Founding Fathers: 

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks: We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present; let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter, instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

Samuel Adams (1722 – 1803)