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"For Your Safety" - The Lie That Destroys Liberty

"For Your Safety" - The Lie That Destroys Liberty

Published 10 months ago
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From ancient empires to modern regimes, the story never changes: every government knows nothing expands power faster than fear. Fear is the tool, the trigger, the weapon – and it’s always the excuse for crushing liberty. In this episode, you’ll hear warnings from Founders, revolutionaries, and the great thinkers they learned from about how fear and the promise of safety are used to justify power, silence dissent, and lay the groundwork for oppression.

Path to Liberty: May 21, 2025

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Montesquieu – The Spirit of Laws (1748)

Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 15 (4 Feb 1721)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1683)

James Madison – Philadelphia Convention (29 June 1787)

Plato – The Republic, Jowett’s Translation (400-350 BC)

Aristotle – The Politics Vol. 1, Jowett’s Translation (335-323 BC)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 7 (17 Dec 1720)

John Dickinson – Letters f

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