• Liberty Defined

  • 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom
  • By: Ron Paul
  • Narrated by: Bob Craig
  • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (540 ratings)

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Liberty Defined

By: Ron Paul
Narrated by: Bob Craig
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In Liberty Defined, congressman and #1 New York Times bestselling author Ron Paul returns with his most provocative, comprehensive, and compelling arguments for personal freedom to date.

The term "Liberty" is so commonly used in our country that it has become a mere cliché. But do we know what it means? What it promises? How it factors into our daily lives? And most importantly, can we recognize tyranny when it is sold to us disguised as a form of liberty?

Dr. Paul writes that to believe in liberty is not to believe in any particular social and economic outcome. It is to trust in the spontaneous order that emerges when the state does not intervene in human volition and human cooperation. It permits people to work out their problems for themselves, build lives for themselves, take risks and accept responsibility for the results, and make their own decisions. It is the seed of America.

This is a comprehensive guide to Dr. Paul's position on fifty of the most important issues of our times, from Abortion to Zionism. Accessible, easy to digest, and fearless in its discussion of controversial topics, Liberty Defined sheds new light on a word that is losing its shape.

©2011 Ron Paul (P)2011 Hachette Audio

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This book will challenge your thinking

Ron Paul always gives a very logical and challenging presentation on any given topic. I do not agree with everything he says but I am forced to agree with most of what he has written. His ideas are logical, clear and concise. They just ring true. Our nation would be in a much better condition if most Americans understood these issues and followed the economic and political ideas expressed in this book. We would be more secure, more free, and wealthier as a nation and individuals. To add to this I found the book very interesting. Great job Mr. Paul.

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Ron Paul for President

I have never agreed with so many views of a politician. The way he discussed the 50 issues was easy to understand and thoroughly thought out.

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Dr Ron Paul Did It Again!

Just do your self a favor, "read them all" Cures evil thru education. Thank you for another great book.

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Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues

5 Stars for the content. These are indeed Essential Issues.

Suggestion: Savor first the audio book chapters 46, 47 and 48 (why can't they sync the audio book chapter numbers with the print book chapter numbers?) for Dr. Paul's thoughts on “Taxes”, Terrorism”, and “Torture”.

3 Stars for the reading. I have encountered several instances where Bob Craig completely misread words, (endangered for engendered comes to mind) and others were his phrasing does not deliver the full impact of Congressman Dr. Paul's intention. One would think that a professional narrator would at least 'proof hear" his own work, or get someone to do it for him. This is too important a book to be read so carelessly.

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Is Ron Paul Crazy?

Or does the rest of the country just not get it? In this book Ron Paul takes a few very basic ideas (every capable individual owns themselves and their mind, and force should only be used to protect life and liberty) and, without compromise, applies them to some issues that are constantly being argued over (and some that are not). He starts many of the issues with what the constitution has to say about them, and talks about many ideas that clog and confuse the issues.

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A visit to the Libertarian Utopia

I'm speaking from a position of knowing very little about Ron Paul and the general idea of Libertarianism. My hope with listening to this book was to get a better idea of both so I could be prepared for the upcoming election cycle.
Based on this book alone, what I found out about Libertarianism was that the general criticism of it is essentially spot on. The Libertarian ideal is an empty box covered with shiny paper and a big, pretty bow. I wouldn't go so far as to say that Paul contradicts himself (a lot) in this book, but he definitely seems to have a lot of moving targets; on abortion he tells us to trust science in that if a fetus is to be considered a "baby" at 9 months then it should be at one month as well. Yet when it comes to Global Warming we're told not to trust the overwhelming scientific consensus that something very real is happening in that regard and uses the term "junk science" to describe it. There are similar instances throughout the book. The real problem I had with it was that nearly the whole concept of Libertarianism seems to be based on the idea that left to our own devices (as opposed to heavy government regulation) we will all just do the right thing and everything will magically fall into place. He completely avoids the reality of how the govt. regulations that he speaks against have been put in place because people DON'T just naturally do the right thing. I completely agree that we need to pull back the influence of government, but it needs to be done in a realistic way. In this first look into Libertarianism I can see why it's not taken that seriously. The ideas are compelling and I don't know who wouldn't want to live in that world, but then again that's what a utopia is all about.
I found the narration to be smooth and flowing, Craig took what could be considered a fairly dry subject and moved it along well. I give it 4 stars because I got the book to find out more about the subject and the book delivered.

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Thought Provoking

One of the most thought provoking books I've read in a while. I don't agree with all of Dr. Paul's views but it is hard to argue against independence, liberty and free markets.

I'm also a big proponent of the Austrian school of economics, Mesis, Hayek. etc. as opposed to Keynes and this is a pretty good outline as to why. As a follow up if you want to dig deeper The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek is fantastic. Also, the Ludwig von Mises Institute is a great resources with a number of free auidobooks.

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Very good

Dr Paul is one of the great political thinkers of our age. This book showed me how our government should be run. With honesty and integrity. Unfortunately its not. Dr Paul shows the Hippocratic of both parties. He has my vote in the up coming election.

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great book

if you want to know what Ron Paul stands for, this is a great listen!!!

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Astounding content!

Common sense arguments set forth by Ron Paul make you wonder why we still live our lives not noticing how many freedoms we have given up and are about to give up even more if staying idle and pretending all is just fine.
We need to start putting some more effort into our thought process - no excuses!
Fantastic book!

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