Liberty, limited government

Epic Heroes Throughout History Champion Principles of Freedom

Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. ~2 Corinthians 3:17

Therefore, my beloved brother, let us resist evil. . .that we may retain our freedom, that we may rejoice in. . .the cause of our Redeemer and our God.. . .according to the Spirit of God, which is also the Spirit of God. ~Pahoran, Alma 61:14,15

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master~ George Washington

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. ~Edmund Burke

I teach them correct principles, and they govern themselves. ~Joseph Smith

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best. – Thomas Sowell


We’re not going to salvage the ideals of our Founding as Americans or as conservatives if we get into a debate with Democrats over who can run the smartest Big Government, which is where too many of the so-called intelligentsia and Party elitists on our side want to go. They think the public has determined it wants Big Government and that nothing can change that. But we must never let the ebb and flow of public opinion sway us from our core beliefs. We must never give up teaching and explaining and exhorting—and we must never underestimate the power of original American principles to sway American. It’s in our marrow.

This is a nation founded on the pillar of individual liberty. The notion at the root of our Founding is that we are individuals. We are not a collective. We do our best when we are working, without government shackles, in our own self-interest—not selfishness, but self-interest, quite a different thing—improving our lives and our families’ lives, which in turn improves the lives or our communities, towns, cities, states, the nation at large.

Individual liberty will never go out of style; as our Founders correctly noted, it is a part of our creation. It’s what has set this country apart from every other group of human beings in the history of the world. We have acknowledged we are created by God, not government, that our freedom is the natural yearning of the human spirit. And as such, liberty will never go out of style. We ill never, ever say, “The era of freedom is over.” We can never say, “The era of liberty is over.”

Because, in America, it never will be. We refuse to let “the sacred fire of liberty,” as George Washington put it, ever be quenched.  ~Rush Limbaugh