Liberty Defined: Index

The published edition of Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom by Ron Paul (Grand Central Publishing, 2011) lacks an index. This page is designed to provide for one.

INDEX

A

Abortion, 1-9

Alcohol, 225-230

Ali, Muhammad, 46-74

American Enterprise Institute, 209

AMA, 192-197

Afghanistan, 115

1980s, 93

Assange, Julian, 35

Assassination, 10-15

Anwar-al-Awalaki, 14

Austrian Economics, 16

Austrian School, 16-19

Awlaki, Anwar al, 14

B

Bacon-Davis Act, 309

Bailouts

Chrysler, 307

General Motors, 306

M-1 Tank, 307

Bastiat, Federic, 17, 164

Begala, Paul, 112

Bernanke, Ben, 168

Bill of Rights, 14

Blair, Dennis C., 12

Blockades, 298

Blowback, 96

Boeing, 308

Bush, George W. (President), 83, 89, 108, 110

Business Cycle, 24-27

C

CAFTA, 297

Camp David Accords, 119

Campaign Finance, 28

Cap and Trade, 136

Capital Punishment, 32-36

Carter, Jimmy (President), 119

Census, 273

Central Intelligence Agency, 37-34

illegal funding, 86, 116

influencing foreign elections, 66

orchestrating military coups, 85

unrestrained efforts, 85

Cicero, 84, 98, 99

Civil Disobedience, 44-49

Martin Luther King, 45

Muhammad Ali, 46

Civil War, 261, 268, 269

Classical Liberalism, xii, 211

Cleland, Max, 89

Climate Change, 133

Cold War, xiii

Conscription, 50-55, 328

no Constitutional authority, 50

legislation to repeal Selective Service Act, 53

Taft opposition to draft, 54

Constitution of the United States

designed to protect individual rights, 66

Counterfeiting, 327

D

Debt, xv

Declaration of Independence, xi

Deficits, 168

Democracy, 63-72

democratic mandate, 65

spreading democracy, 64

vs. Republic, 65

victimizing minorities, 64

Demagogue, 56-63

Discrimination, 73-77

making up for past injustice, 76

punish with social and economic disapproval, 75

reparations, 77

Dollar hegemony, xiv

Drug War, 94, 154, 226-228

Draft (see Conscription)

E

Education, 78

competition, 79

Department of Education, 80

home school, 79-82

monopoly control of indoctrination, 79

NEA, 81

no Constitutional authority, 78

no child left behind, 80

textbook controversy, 79

vouchers, 79

Eighteenth Amendment, 226

Egypt, 66

Envy, 101

Executive Power, 108

F

Foreign Trade

Congress responsibility, 298

Fiat currency, 171

fiat dollar, 170

Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, 206

Fisher, Louis, 116

FBI

group infiltration, 47

Federal Reserve, 115, 199, 206

foreign aid, 120

monetary policy 198

First Amendment, 58, 123

campaign finance, 29

Foreign Aid, 118-122

Agency for International Development, 120

food aid, 119

International Monetary Fund, 120

World Bank

Fourth Amendment, 47

Fourth-Generation Warfare, 92

Flag burning, 218

G

Global Warming, 133-143

cap and trade, 136

skeptics, 133, 137

radical environmentalism, 133-137

General Motors, 306

Gold, 198-201

Goldman Sachs, 69

Bail out, 308

Greenspan, Alan, 199

Gulf War, 176

H

Hayek, F.A., 17, 202

Hazlitt, Henry, 17

Hussein, Saddam, 92

I

Illegal Aliens, 305

Immigration, 150-159

generous visitor work program, 154

Immigrants, 305

Import-Export Bank, 308

Individual, 327

Insurance, 160-165

Iran, 92

Iraq, 298

war with Iran, 92

Islam

war with, 239

Israel, 297

J

Jefferson, Thomas, xi

Jordan, 66

K

Keynes, John Maynard, 18

need for real wages to go down, 311

The General Theory, 166

Keynesianism, 18, 166, 200-202

King, Martin Luther, 45, 48

Kristol, Irving, 209, 214-216

L

Lewis, C.S., 164

Libertarian, xvii

Liberty, 324-325

definition, xi-xiii, xvii-xviii

conflict with government, xvii

Locke, John, xii

Lobbyists, 179

M

Madison, James, 132

Majority Rule, 70

never use to undermine human rights, 70

Malthusian, 138

Marriage, 183

McKinley, William, 123

Medical Care, 187

Menger, Carl, 16, 17

Mencken, Henry Louis, 61

demagogues, 61

Militarism, 298

Minimum wage, 309

Moral Hazard, 203

Mises, Ludwig von, 17, 18, 19, 24, 135, 166, 264

business cycle, 24

Keynes analysis, 166

N

NEA, 81

NAFTA, 297

National Labor Relations Act, 301

Neoconservative, 209, 215

noble lie, 94, 212

philosophy, 214

war, 215

Cambone, Stephen, 214

Kristol, William, 214

Kristol, Irving, 214

Ledeen, Michael, 214

Shulsky, Abram, 214

Perle, Richard, 214

Podhoretz, John, 214

Straus, Leo, 214

Wolfowitz, Paul, 214

Nixon, President Richard, 303

Noble Lie, 94, 212

P

Paterson, Isabel, 164

Patriot Act, 10

Patriotism, 218

empires redefine, 91

last refuge of scoundrel, 219

willing to criticize one's own government, 89

Peak Oil, 143

Political Correctness, 148, 222

reflection of authoritarian society, 223

banning books, 224

thought police, 224

Prohibition, 225

alcohol, 225

Eighteenth Amendment, 225

drug war, 226

Public Land, 231

national parks, 233

Fifth Amendment, 234

land taken for public use, 235

Public Schools, 282

President's Working Group on Financial Markets, 116, 172

plunge protection team, 172

Progressive Era, 122

Property, 327

Protectionists, 298

R

Radical Environmentalism, 134

Rights, human, xv-xvii

Real ID, 158

Republic, 64, 90

Cicero legacy, 84, 98

vs Democracy, 65

transition to empire, 84

Robinson, Dr. Arthur B., 139

Roe v. Wade, 5-7

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 125

Roosevelt, Franklin D, 26, 113, 123, 167

four freedoms, 123

Roosevelt, Theodore, 123

Roman Republic, xv, 84-88, 98

Rothbard, Murray, 17

Ruby Ridge, 48

Rumsfeld, Donald, 307

S

Sanctions, 298

Saudi Arabia, 66

Second Amendment, 144

Skeptic, 133

Security, false sense of, xvi

Silver, 198-200

Sixteenth Amendment to Constitution, 280

Social Security, 161

Spooner, Lysander, 70

Stark, Rodney (n.), xii

Statistics, 273

Strauss, Leo, 209, 213, 214

Surveillance, 277

traffic light cameras, 278

T

Taxes, 280, 283

Taliban, 93-94

Tea Party, 91, 181

Terrorism, 11, 94

Thoreau, Henry David, 164

Torture, 290

Trade Policies, 298

Turkey, 297

U

Unemployment, 305

statistics, 275

Unions, 301

NEA, 81

United Nations, 125

declaration of human rights, 125

V

Victimless Crimes, 67

Voluntary Association, 67, 74, 75

W

War, 159, 175, 198, 199, 213, 221, 248, 328

against terrorism, 11

cold war, 174, 239

fourth-generation warfare, 92

manipulate public opinion, 212, 215

perpetual war, 159, 162, 168

preventive war, 57, 71, 91, 175, 176, 210, 243, 244

racism bread by war, 239

religious, 243, 248

south central asia, 140, 221

undeclared, 218, 223, 258

War Powers Resolution, 96, 111, 113

warfarism, 167, 170

War on Drugs, 94, 152-156

Wage and price controls, 113

Washington, George, 324

Wiesel, Elie 98

Wikileaks, xiii, 216

Wilson, Woodrow, 64, 123

conscription, 51

Wind Power, 135

World War I, 64, 123, 239

World War II, 239

WTO, 297