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“The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”

-Thucydides The father of scientific history

Veterans for Academic Freedom.org believes that everyone has the right to inquire into the truth. That public university professors do not have the right to abuse their position so as to confuse students into thinking that a professors political position represents the department or the university. That even sound laws, doctrines and theories have nothing to fear from being tested for validity. It is the goal of Veterans For Academic Freedom.org to promote the principles of academic freedom for all people.

Freedom is precious and rare, it must be constantly guarded. For over two-hundred years the American fighting man has been willing to put his life on the line for freedom. The destruction of liberty comes in many forms, the most obvious is the physical oppression, but it can also comes as taxation, over-regulation, and forbidding the discussion or dissemination of certain points of view. Many of the values of veterans are unwelcome on the American campus, the same people who are fighting for peoples freedoms in foreign lands are denied freedom at home.

We ask that you join us in this fight to reform the American universities such that every student feels and enjoys academic freedom, regardless of anyone’s political position.  We are not a political organization, but one of education.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. — George Orwell

“Academic reform is necessary and no one has more moral authority to demand that they clean up their act than those who have put their lives on the line for this country.”

Thomas Sowell – Stanford University

“I’m warning of an eradication of the American memory that could result, ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit. Let’s start with some basics: more attention to American history and a greater emphasis on civic ritual. And let me offer lesson number one about America: All great change in America begins at the dinner table. So, tomorrow night in the kitchen I hope the talking begins. And children, if your parents haven’t been teaching you what it means to be an American, let ‘em know and nail ‘em on it. That would be a very American thing to do.”

-President Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address to the Nation. Oval Office. January 11, 1989

“In the same way as a man who has not mastered a foreign language sometimes fails to express himself correctly, so statesmen often issue orders that defeat the purpose they are meant to serve. Time and again this has happened, which demonstrates that a certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.”

Gen. Carl von Clausewitz

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