“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance” goes the sentiment often ascribed to Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of those words never may have been more important than today.
Navy veteran, physicist, and business consultant Ralph Bayrer, author of the new book “Eternal Vigilance: Guarding Against the Predatory State,” joins the podcast to discuss the future of our nation and how Americans can defend our freedom.
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Virginia Allen: We are joined today by Ralph Bayrer, author of the newly released book “Eternal Vigilance: Guarding Against the Predatory State.” Mr. Bayrer, welcome to “The Daily Signal Podcast.”
Ralph Bayrer: Well, thank you, and good morning. I appreciate the opportunity to share the book with you and your audience.
Allen: Well, I love how you begin the book. Right at the top, you have this excellent quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson, which is, “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.” And I assume that that is where the title of the book came from.
So let’s unpack this idea a little bit that in order to maintain freedom, we have to maintain vigilance. So what did Jefferson and what do you mean by that?
Bayrer: I mean that we’ve got to be alert to what I call the darker side of human nature when it comes to government.
I’m not talking about necessarily vigilance on the everyday legislative process, that’s simply too complex and too easily obfuscated for the average person.
I’m really talking about a deeper vigilance with regard to constitutional principle and structure. Something that is a precious inheritance of our country is embedded in our Constitution, and something that, actually, as I show, comes from over two and a half millennia of human evolution.
Allen: In maintaining that vigilance, like you said, it’s this larger picture and we have to be acutely aware of what is happening in our country. So how do we recognize what actually is a threat to our freedom?
Bayrer: Well, maybe it was a little pretentious. I try to establish what I’d call an empirical principle in that regard, an argument that facts and results are what count, not sentimentality. And we’ve got to get people attuned to that.
I must say, in this regard, that The Heritage Foundation, along with Dow Jones, puts out this marvelous work every year, the Index of Economic Freedom....
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