Liberty

“For the LORD is our Judge,

the LORD is our Lawgiver,

the LORD is our King;

He will save us.”

~Isaiah 33:22~

One only is the Lawgiver and Judge,

even He who is able to save and to destroy:

but who art thou that judgest thy neighbor?
James 4:12

. . . where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is liberty.

~II Corinthians 3:17b~

“In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward off the impending judgments, . . . at the same time all confidence must be withheld from the means we use; and reposed only on that God rules in the armies of Heaven, and without His whole blessing, the best human counsels are but foolishness.
~John Hancock, signer of the Declaration of Independence~

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
~Marcus Tullius Cicero~

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
~Patrick Henry~

Let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God (Exodus 18:21) . . . If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . If our government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.
~Noah Webster, The History of the United States (New Haven: Durrie and Peck, 1832), pp. 336-337, 49~