A civil society builds from, and depends upon, the actual love in enough people - that other people respect, enough.
Liberty requires that, plus knowing:
We only have the rights that we are able to defend.
We are only as free as we make the effort to know why.
The sum total, is unknown by 89 percent of people who are foreign to our nation. Whether or not they visit; and regardless of their socio-economic status.
Meaning, they do not know how to establish, what our Founding Fathers built with the help of God.
A friend of mine who spent decades touring the world - impoverished areas, also deep in practically every existing jungle - teaching people, agreed, that there are people who have never been to America, but dream of it, on the basis of the principles.
The people not here, but have America in their hearts.
I hasten to add, that there are still, a lot of people who have a sense of the freedom, though they cannot put it into words and suffer because of that: Unable to establish America - liberty, under God, and limited government - where they live.
They must enforce limitations upon government and its agents.
I had a conversation along those lines, with a U.S. Air Marshal whose wife mostly lived in Costa Rico, because of her job (airline stewardess). Her routes and his routes were not the same; he was based in the U.S.A.
He said, that in Costa Rico, “You have to be prepared to pay off the police, with cash. They expect it.”
We had been comparing notes on the job: federal law enforcement. I am old school (left the service years ago). He had been on a security team for somebody high up. We both respected limited government; and, that agents only have the authority enumerated on a list.
I flat out refused to indulge in extra-Constitutional abuses of power, so I left the service. I detest: “We are going to make an example of you!” threats.
You know our father’s love, by his restraint.
Thanks for listening.
Liberty requires that, plus knowing:
We only have the rights that we are able to defend.
We are only as free as we make the effort to know why.