Government and Freedom . . . .

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The Declaration of Independence recognizes the continuous possession of personal freedoms ("endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights"), and thus they cannot be stolen by a majority vote in Congress, but only surrendered by a personal, intentional, knowing choice. And history teaches that government does not return freedoms once stolen or surrendered. Without freedom, who will protect us from the government?

The government can't deliver the mail, pave potholes, balance the budget, fairly collect taxes, protect us from Ebola, even tell the truth. Who would trust it with personal freedoms?
-Judge Napolitano

Read on:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/10/andrew-p-napolitano/government-vs-freedom/