In any free society there will be some decadence or moral decay, but when moral decay or decadence become the norm of that society, you will more likely than not, lose your freedom and liberty.  Morality should not be made law, but the free choice of every individual, although morality is a necessity in Commerce and in all of Human endeavor, to keep Liberty and Freedom alive, because too many people will clamor for the restrictions of Liberty and Freedom, to keep themselves safe and protected against the immoral in society and the decadence of a society.

. You have to show and teach moral right, by how well you live your life, and by trying not to be a hypocrite to what you profess to believe in. You need to teach morality to the young, and its importance in a free society, to be free, and stay free. You need to teach the young morality, not just by words, but also by example. It is also the job of Churches, Synagogues, Mosques, and Temples to help show the way, to a ethical and moral life, they need to do more, then what they're doing now, to show the way to a ethical and moral life. You cannot legislate ethics or morality, but you can as an individual, help show the way, the moral way, the ethical way, and the right way, to live your life, as an example for all to see.

Here are some Quotes by selected authors on liberty and freedom. There are more quotes on web page {Freedom to Quote.} I hope you like the quotes I have selected.

Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "It is not by the consolidation, or the concentration of powers, but by their distribution that good government is affected."  He also wrote, "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be....  The people cannot be safe without information.  When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe."  He also wrote, "The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be content to secure what we can from time to time, and eternally press forward for what there is yet to get. It takes time to persuade Men to do even what is for their own good." He also wrote, "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."  He also wrote, "No Man has the natural right to commit aggression upon the Equal Rights of another and this is all from which the Law ought to restrain him."  He also wrote, "The concentrating [of powers] in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government.  It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one."  He also wrote, " The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society."  George Bernard Shaw once wrote, "Liberty means responsibility, that's why most men dread it." Milton Friedman once wrote, "A society that puts equality ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality or freedom."  James Madison once wrote, "Wherever the real power in a government lies, there is the danger of oppression.  In our Government the real power lies in the majority of the community..."  James Fennimore Cooper once wrote, "The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all matter that its possessors are a majority.  Rudolph Rommel wrote, "Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on Earth."  Leonardo da Vinci once wrote, "You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself."  Ayn Rand wrote, "Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction.  The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrats tool is fear."  I write, "Only the weak and petty seek to find power and control over others, the strong find it enough to seek, to find, to have power and control over themselves."  Abraham Lincoln once wrote, "It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion- to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion- that we here highly resolve that these honored dead shall not have died in vain- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom- and that the government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth." And finally Winston Churchill once wrote, "The further backward you can look, the further forward you’re likely to see."

We have to have the Free-will and power to make our own choices, to live our own lives in the freedom and liberty, to believe as we so choose as individuals, to do what we think is right, to show the way to freedom and liberty for ourselves and our posterity. We have to believe in the power of liberty and freedom, and not take our freedoms and liberty for-granted, to be all that we can be, and the best we can be, we must be forever vigilant, to be free and stay forever free, in the Freest Nation on Earth.

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