Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom

Ron Paul

Apr 2011 · Sold by Grand Central Publishing

About this ebook

In Liberty Defined, congressman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date.

The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere cliche. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most importantly, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of liberty?

Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits people to work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions. It is the seed of America.

This is a comprehensive guide to Dr. Paul's position on fifty of the most important issues of our times, from Abortion to Zionism. Accessible, easy to digest, and fearless in its discussion of controversial topics, Liberty Defined sheds new light on a word that is losing its shape.

Ratings and reviews

Anti-democratic. Dog-whistle racism disguised as "freedom of association." There is a chapter on "Envy" but none on "Greed." This book is about keeping corporations rich (the "justly rich" is the term Paul uses without irony), and the poor have the freedom to starve. The book is written in independent chapters because if Paul were to attempt a coherent argument, his position would swiftly fall apart. Compartmentalizing conceals his aims: remember, this guy IS part of the government, not part of the opposition. Pernicious positions like Paul's threaten liberty, they do not enhance it.

This book reminds you of what your true rights, your unalienable rights are. What the State has done to destroy your liberty and the health of a people is documented throughout. The most ringing chapter for me is Empire, a candid account of why we are on track for a disaster. The first chapter, abortion, I disagree with Paul. Liberty would prohibit the state from being involved in the moral decision of an adult.

He has an exceptional understanding of how the world works, and more importantly, how it would work in a truly free society. He makes it easy to understand how his ideas could be implemented and how they would eventually benefit us all, not lead to chaos and collapse like some people think. Less war, less government, less tax, more liberty. Actually not such revolutionary ideas. Great read

About the author

Ron Paul is a former twelve-term congressman from Texas and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. He has devoted his political career to the defense of individual liberty, sound money, and a non-interventionist foreign policy. Judge Andrew Napolitano once called him "the Thomas Jefferson of our day."

After serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force in the 1960s, Dr. Paul moved to Texas to begin a civilian medical practice, delivering over four thousand babies in his career as an obstetrician. He served in Congress from 1976 to 1984, and again from 1996 to 2012. He and Carol Paul, his wife of fifty-one years, have five children, eighteen grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Ron Paul, the New York Post once wrote, is a politician who "cannot be bought by special interests."