Providence and Faith in the Glove of History; the Sheltered Anchorage of Our Nation

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Without a belief in God, we have no “unalienable rights.” Without these rights, we have no absolutes. Without absolutes, we have no moral authority. Without moral authority, we have no foundation for, nor any right to enforce the rule of law. Without the rule of law, there can be no government. And, if this great experiment of “government of the people, by the people, and for the people … [should] perish from the earth,” we will have no Liberty... and I dare say no second chance.

And, if we should wantonly squander the “Blessings of Liberty” secured “to ourselves and our Posterity” through that “last measure of devotion” freely given by Patriots-past, and as ordained and established through our Constitution; if we should, due to the hubris of fools, be left bereft and adrift in a pretentious denial of the “truths [which are] self-evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights;” and if we should despise those Rights and also the blessings poured upon this nation in an unfathomable abundance by a Benevolent Providence — the very blessings responsible for the birth and prosperity of this land of Freedom; indeed if we should, then — “may God help us.”

For, as it has been repeatedly stated: the price of Liberty is eternal vigilance; and evil persons who possess wanton lusts for conquest, greed, and power will not hesitate to perpetuate every form of barbarism we could dread to imagine upon ourselves, our children, and our children’s children!

Let it never be so, O Merciful and Just One — You "who presides over the rise and fall of all nations” [quotation paraphrased].<sup>†

†</sup>All quotations from: early Fathers, the Declaration of Independence, the Gettysburg Address, Patrick Henry, the Constitution of the United States, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Benjamin Franklin.