Having just finished reading "The Good Doctor" Ron Paul's book, Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom*, I felt compelled to share a tiny piece of it with you. At the very end of the book (the appendix, in fact), Ron Paul added what I considered the most important part of the book:
"The ten principles of a free society:
1. Rights belong to individuals, not groups; they derive from our nature and can neither be granted nor taken away by government.
2. All peaceful, voluntary economic and social associations are permitted; consent is the basis of the social and economic order.
3. Justly acquired property is privately owned by individuals and voluntary groups, and this ownership cannot be arbitrarily voided by governments.
4. Government may not redistribute private wealth or grant special privileges to any individual or group.
5. Individuals are responsible for their ow actions; government cannot and should not protect us from ourselves.
6. Government may not claim the monopoly over a people's money and government must never engage in official counterfeiting, even in the name of macroeconomic stability.
7. Aggressive wars, even when called preventative, and even when they pertain only to trade relations, are forbidden.
