Saturday, January 29, 2011

Precarious Freedom

Precisely because we have a weak and ineffectual government we have a free people; let us maintain our high regard for freedom by disdaining the siren’s cry for bigger government. To live and build our lives around principles of our own choosing, or to live and build our lives around the choices of Leviathan—these are the choices each generation of Americans must freshly make. It takes only one generation, disregarding the wisdom of our fathers, to recreate a new government that will pale in comparison to that great government long ago set in motion, and will succeed only in making us an “un” exceptional nation.

Pat Davis 2011