The American people feared the permanent loss of liberty more than they feared the temporary loss of their income or property.
The tea parties self-formed without leadership from above. But millions of people who didn’t join the tea parties nonetheless endorsed their sentiments and values — so that by last month, polls showed that the tea parties were more identified with than the Republican Party, which itself had just won the greatest election victory in well over half a century.
No other people in the world would have responded to economic danger by seeking more liberty and less government protection.
No other people would have thought to themselves, “If I have to suffer economically in order not to steal from my grandchildren, so be it.”
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