The Liberty Tribune
Our blog consists of vineyard happenings, winemaking insights, event highlights,
and selected quotes from Founders!
These Truths
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Declaration of Independence
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties...
No People will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved.
Education
Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Natural Progress of Things
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Life + Liberty
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Liberty in a Featherbed
We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Abridgments of Freedom
"There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
Art of Government
"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of people."
Sea of Liberty
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
Liberty and Knowledge
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right…and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers."