Liberty Maven

We all have influential figures that touch our lives in some way. We at Liberty Maven have decided to put together a list of people we like to call Liberty Heroes. These people have influenced us in some way due to their dedication to the cause of liberty. Through their words, beliefs, and actions they have all proven themselves to be worthy of the hero title.

Some are conservative, some liberal, some are Republicans, some are Democrats, some are Libertarians, and many are none of the above. Some are deceased, some are still among the living, but all have breathed for freedom and liberty at some point in history. Some are well known, some are hardly known. We hope that by forming this list we can help the lesser known among them become more known.

We will reveal more and more heroes as the days and weeks go by. The “Liberty Heroes” link on the navigation menu bar will direct you to the page containing all of our heroes. All new heroes will also be announced with an article (like this one) as we add them.

Our first hero is posted. It is none other than Walter E. Williams. His entry is included below.

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Walter E. Williams

Walter E. Williams is an economist and college professor at George Mason University. He is on the Liberty Maven Liberty Heroes list because of his dedication to free market economics and liberty. His syndicated column is always interesting and worth reading. He regularly fills in for Rush Limbaugh on Limbaugh’s national radio show. We don’t hold that against him though. He wrote the foreword to Thomas DiLorenzo’s excellent book, “The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War“. He is also an accomplished author of his own with works such as “More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well (Hoover Institution Press Publication ; No. 453)” and the recently released “Liberty versus the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays“. Below are a few choice quotes from Williams.

“The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.”

“Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.”

“There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one’s own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else’s pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.”