Katharine Atholl had smelled danger and said so, years before the elite of her own political party mustered similar courage. How different might history have been if there were more people like her?

If you want to be free, if you want to live in a free society, you must assign top priority to raising the caliber of your character and learning from those who already have it in spades. 

Peter Fechter and the 253 others who died at the Berlin Wall deserve to be remembered, and the communism that killed them deserves to be despised.

Through her powerful example and exemplary character, she became one of the most admired women in American history. 

Norval Morey not only knew what it takes to make a successful company tick; he knew what it takes to make a successful country tick as well. 

The free-market reforms of Ludwig Erhard ignited a pace of growth that dwarfed that of European countries that received far more Marshall Plan aid than Germany ever did.

Born Araminta Harriet Ross in 1820 in Maryland, Tubman survived the brutalities of bondage for 29 years before she bolted for freedom.

Whatever the future holds for Jimmy Lai, friends of liberty everywhere can count him as one very brave man.

Defending civil liberties in the midst of a major war was a courageous stand in the 1860s.

Cockran packed more history of currency from both the United States and Britain into one speech than most members of Congress—then or now—have learned in their lifetimes. 

Garfield was a “hard money” man, and he was smart enough to avoid the ancient confusion that money was synonymous with wealth itself. 

Tilden was known for assessing policy options according to right and wrong versus the typical political (and Machiavellian) rule of what can get you elected and reelected. 

Essays on America’s 22nd and 24th President

Young Wallace emerged early as a Scottish patriot of special mettle, leading his countrymen to a smashing victory at the Battle of Stirling Bridge on September 11, 1297.

At a time when others in the British Commonwealth had begun to emulate the welfare-state policies of Bismarckian Germany, Laurier had a better idea. 

“One of a kind” seems a trite understatement in Ralph’s case. If you knew him, you probably couldn’t think of anybody else quite like him. He was iconic and iconoclastic.

We should be grateful for good people who push back when government pushes where it shouldn’t. Liberty would surely be a lost cause without them. One such person is Harry Teasley of Tampa, Florida.

Picture in your mind the unimaginable: the railway station in Prague when anguished parents and relatives loaded the children onto the trains and said what would be for most, their final goodbyes.

The League appropriated the word “individualism” and elevated its general meaning to one of respect for the rights and uniqueness of each person.

Joe Overton was the straightest straight shooter I’ve ever known. Not a speck of deception, guile, conceit, or hidden agenda in him. He said what he meant and meant what he said, always.