Must a Christian be a Libertarian?
Adapted from a speech delivered to the 1996 Libertarian Party National Convention, in Washington, D.C., on the 4th of July.

The History of Freedom in Christianity by Lord Acton
The text of this speech by Lord Acton is available here on the Advocates' Web site.

Selections from The Liberty Store:

Discovering Self-Government: Bible-Based Study Guide
by Virgil Swearingin. A companion guide to Libertarianism in One Lesson.

How Christians Become Libertarians - panel discussion audio tape

Should Christians Be Libertarians? - audio tape

David Crockett, Charity, and Congress
From time to time, congress has appropriated money for charitable purposes. The following account of Crockett's experience, while in Washington, is in that line, and is very timely and instructive.

From The Freeman Archives:

Tough Love for the Needy
Government programs reinforce social pathologies they are trying to cure: they pay people for being out of work-and encourage unemployment; they pay people to have children they can't support-and encourage larger welfare families.

Moral Criticisms of the Market
While the opposition to free markets and less government control has declined in recent years among the "secular left," the political-economic views of the "Christian left" seem to remain stubbornly unchanged.

Doug Bandow - Libertarian
Doug Bandow's hard-hitting and consistently libertarian column is syndicated nationally.

Quotable:

"Jesus Christ fasted for 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness. At the end of the 40 days, Satan took him to the mountaintop and offered Jesus Christ dominion over the world... if Jesus would kneel down and worship him. Satan offered Jesus political power and Jesus responded, 'My kingdom is not of this world.'

"Jesus turned down political power.

"Was Jesus wrong?"

- Michael Cloud

"Being a lover of freedom, when the [Nazi] revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks...

"Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing the truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration for it because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual and moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly."

- Albert Einstein