Hillsdale College - Dr. Terrence Moore - Ronald Reagan - the Welfare State and Self-Government

"Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."
Ronald Reagan

Published on Apr 24, 2013 Dr. Terrence Moore Hillsdale College American Heritage Online Course

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Hillsdale College - 2013 GPA Redistribution Video Contest Entry

Congratulations to Hillsdale College Young Americans for Freedom chapter for winning the annual Young America's Foundation GPA redistribution video contest.

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American History - Founding Fathers - Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 -1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath (a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas), Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He facilitated many civic organizations, including a fire department and a university.

Benjamin Franklin Quotes:

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.

When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.

Where liberty dwells, there is my country.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.

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Hillsdale College - Dr. Larry Arnn - Time to Give Up or Time to Fight On?

The 2012 election is shot through with contradictions. The obvious contradiction is that we have a divided government. The presidency and the Senate are in the hands of one party, and the House of Representatives and most governorships are in the hands of the other.
A second contradiction is that a large majority of people continued to say in the exit polls that they were against raising taxes in order to cut the deficit. One might be cynical and put that down to an irresponsible refusal to pay for existing benefits—to get more and more “free stuff.” But for a long time now, opinion polls have pointed towards the existence of a broad majority of Americans who favor smaller government. This obviously contradicts the re-election of the president and the Democratic gains in the Senate. The country is still a house divided against itself, and that’s dangerous. But it doesn’t mean that there’s been a resolution. It means in fact the opposite: there is not a resolution. That resolution still has to be made, and the making of it lies ahead of us, and not behind us.

December 20, 2012

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Larry Arnn on the Declaration and Constitution: Chapter 5 of 5

Larry Arnn discusses how the Declaration of Independence and Constitution enrich our public life.

October 2011

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Larry Arnn on the Declaration and Constitution: Chapter 4 of 5

Larry Arnn discusses why he feels that, to protect individual liberty, the government must uphold national security.

October 2011

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Larry Arnn on the Declaration and Constitution: Chapter 3 of 5

Larry Arnn discusses the four pillars required to reform the structure of government so that it is faithful to the Constitution.

October 2011

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Larry Arnn on the Declaration and Constitution: Chapter 2 of 5

Larry Arnn discusses Woodrow Wilson and the founders of modern liberalism and how they gave more power to government.

October 2011

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Larry Arnn on the Declaration and Constitution: Chapter 1 of 5

Larry Arnn, who earned his graduate and doctorate in government from the Claremont Graduate School, is the president of Hillsdale College. He discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, what the founders gave us and how the Declaration of Independence mattered at the time.

October, 2011

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