Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it. Freedom exists only with power. Freedom is being able to make decisions that affect mainly you. Power is being able to make decisions that affect others more than you. If we confuse power with freedom, we will fail to uphold real freedom. It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom. People should have the right to choose, but they should also know that there are consequences to their choices. People should only lose their freedom and be put in jail, if they drive while on drugs, or drunk on alcohol, or if they harm other people's person, property, privacy or freedom. We need fewer laws and regulations; but we also need to be tough on people who would do harm to the Rights and freedoms of others, especially people that would do harm to other people's person, property, privacy or freedom. We need to be protected against people who would violate our Right and freedom to live free from harm for our families, and ourselves, also to be able to protect our property, from unwanted intrusions, from unwarranted intrusions, and from harm by others. We cannot legislate ethics or morality; we only have the power to punish people for their transgressions, through laws and Government. No law or government has ever had the power, or will ever have the power, to make anyone ethical or moral. Only we as individuals have the power to choose for ourselves, to be ethical or moral, or unethical or immoral, and only individually can we and do we, choose for ourselves our own ethics and morality. No law or government can choose our ethics and morality for us; only individually can we make those choices for ourselves.  If morality and ethics could be legislated we would not need any jails, the mere fact that there was a law would make everybody moral and ethical and you would need no jails.

We have to have the power to choose our own way, to be true to our own beliefs and ourselves, to be our own person, to be free sovereign autonomous individuals, to have the Right to self-determination. We must be ever vigilant, to stay forever free and be forever free, to be all that we can be, and the best we can be, free, in the freest nation on earth.