Calvin Coolidge, United States president, wrote:
"We do not need more law, we need more religion...there is no way...we can substitute the authority of law for the virtue of men...peace, justice, humanity, charity---these can not be legislated into being."
(Promises of the Constitution)
If we want to be a free people we must govern ourselves and obey God's laws, if we do not we will have to be governed by the country's laws.
The Israelites were led out of Egypt into the wilderness by Moses, God gave Moses ten commandments for the people to keep, only ten.
But when Moses came to give these commandments to them they were worshiping a golden calf, he realized they were not ready for these higher laws, but that they must start with many small ones.
Obey and be blessed, disobey and be punished.
Benjamin Franklin said: "Only virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corupt...they have need of more masters."
He hits the point exactly, if you are virtuous then, and only then, can you have freedom.
I will end with what William Penn said, "Men will either be governed by God or ruled by tyrants."
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