Error is better than apathy. Error can be corrected in time to change the outcome. Apathy is seldom corrected until it is too late.

Guns are dangerous. The only thing more dangerous is not having them.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

In the North, neither greenbacks, taxes, nor war bonds were enough to finance the war. So a national banking system was created to convert government bonds into fiat money, and the people lost over half of their monetary assets to the hidden tax of inflation. In the South, printing presses accomplished the same effect, and the monetary loss was total.

If Lincoln's primary goal in the War was not the abolition of slavery but simply to preserve the Union, the question arises: Why did the Union need preserving? Or, more pointedly, why did the Southern states want to secede?

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.