Document:Hospers' Restoring Liberty to America: Difference between revisions

tarian Party, hold that no one is the owner of anyone's life but his own; that the lives of others are not his to dispose of; that no man's life should be a non-volunt ary mortgage on the lives of others; that no one may use force to change the course of the lives of others; that one may use force only in retaliation against those who have initiated its use; and that no government has the  right to initiate the use of force against any citizen.

The American Constitution carefully specified very great restrictions, not on individual ac­ tions, but on the powers of govern­ ment; and its entire emphasis  is on the non-intederence  by  government in the lives of its citizens. If this ideal of liberty had not been betrayed by the leaders of our nation, and by  all of its major political parties, there would have been no need for us to form a new party in order to bring to the attention of our fellow Americans truths which are at once so plain and so profound.