After an absence from this blog, and from my own meme “Founding Father’s Quote Friday,” I now resume my pen typewriter. I also apologize (do I do that more than I blog, I wonder?) to my readers and to FFQF participants. My absence was the result of necessity.

Today, we pose the question “Does one size fit all?” Meaning, “Is one form of government appropriate to all kinds of peoples, nations, societies, cultures, and so forth?” It seems ridiculous at first to think so, because all people are different; but it seems that it is viewed as unpatriotic these days to say that the United States Constitution, or ‘democracy,’ is not going to work for all people.

Let’s see what Founder Alexander Hamilton had to say about this:

… I hold, with Montesquieu, that a government must be fitted to a nation as much as a coat to and individual; and consequently, what may be good at Philadelphia [the unofficial United States capitol at the time], may be bad at Paris, and ridiculous at Petersburg [then capitol of Russia].
To Marquis de Lafayette, January 6th, 1801

We are told that all people have an inner desire for freedom (which is true), and that therefore all people should experience political freedom no matter what their beliefs, culture, or moral standards.

While this is a nice sentiment, and one would naturally hope that this could be realized, it is a sad impossibility. Only those who are capable of governing themselves in such a way that is consistent with the order, peace, and protection of society, can sustain any form of popular government.

I will no doubt be accused of bigotry by saying this, but it is truth nonetheless. Only the moral standards of God, who created man, are fit to govern man sufficiently and properly. God has made it clear that His word has been revealed to us in the form of the Holy Scriptures. If you have any doubts about this, I would suggest that you research the facts, internal and external. Some of the greatest internal evidences that have convinced me personally of the Scriptures’ superhuman origin are the scientific and medical facts which were hidden within the passages of the Bible, some of which have been discovered only during this past century. Ray Comfort has listed these facts in his book Scientific Facts in the Bible, available at Amazon.com. Another evidence is the Bible codes. Good reads on this subject include Dr. Chuck Missler’s The Cosmic Codes, and W. E. Filmer’s book God Counts. There are many other evidences of the Bible’s accuracy and supernatural origin, but these two categories of evidence are totally mind-blowing.

Free government has worked in America as long as America has respected and observed those standards. When she departed, she departed from her origins of civic freedom as well. Now, we need politicians to look out for us, and protect us from ourselves. Such is the price a nation pays for deserting its own good by deserting God’s law.

I hope to continue posting my series called “The Law of Liberty.” I’ve only posted my first installment, and that was some time ago. But, I promise to continue it, and also to continue my exciting series of posts unfolding the relationship between the Founding Fathers, and the Illuminati.

Today’s quote somewhat reflects the theme that I will be touching on in my upcoming installments of “The Law of Liberty.” It’s short, sweet, and simple truth, presenting by the admirable John Adams:

Strait [sic] is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to liberty, and few nations, if any, have found it.

To Richard Rush, Quincy, 14 May, 1821

Liberty — civil liberty — is not a thing easily achieved, or maintained. The essential ingredient that liberty requires is totally missing from human nature. Liberty requires virtue and accountability to be maintained. It requires purity, stability, and a selfless steadfastness. It requires the ability not to be bought or sold, or lulled or hushed.

Liberty is a rare thing in the world because (warning: politically incorrect statement ahead) liberty and human nature are incompatible. Human nature, left to itself in its fallen state, cannot achieve, much less maintain, lasting liberty. Human nature must experience a change before true and lasting liberty is possible.

Keep in mind that Adams made the above statement 5 years previous to his death. He was 86 years old. He had spent his life in making America independent and free. For him to make such a statement toward the end of his life reveals how sobering reality must have been.

It is not as simple as riot and anarchy to bring about, or to restore liberty. As I’ve said before, liberty is NOT maintained (as Jefferson made the mistake of asserting in his famous “tree of liberty” quote) by continually struggling with authority. History has shown that anarchy is substituted for liberty in those cases, and it’s high time that humanity learned the hard lesson that order NEVER comes out of chaos. Liberty is achieved when virtue (i. e., God’s standards) are maintained. Usually, this has only been practiced on a small scale among small groups.

Such were the Separatist Pilgrims who came to this country. They were our original Founders. Because of their godly dedication, our nation was the first republic in history to realize civil liberty on a national scale.

Today we will look at what Alexander Hamilton had to say about the self-destructive weaknesses of republics. In a day and age where both extremes of unitary government and total democracy are pitted against each other in our nation, his words need to be heard and understood.

Every republic at all times has its Catalines and its Caesars. Men of this stamp, while in their hearts they scoff at the principles of liberty, while in their real characters they are arbitrary, persecuting, and intolerant, and despotic, are in all their harangues and professions the most zealous, nay, if they are to be believed, the only friends to liberty.

“The Vindication No. I” May-August 1792

In courts, sycophants flatter the errors and prejudices of the prince; in republics sycophants flatter the errors and prejudices of the people. In both, honest and independent men are frequently obliged to tell unpalatable truths, which are well or ill received according to the virtue and good sense of those to whom they are addressed.

“Philo Camillus No. 3″ August 12, 1795

People may shake their heads in astonishment, as these foretold patterns have been manifestly evident in our own political and social history. Others may marvel at how well our Founders described “the future” so precisely. The truth is that they gained their insight and their understanding through studying the history of republics, or those governments which had the seed of some form of “popular government.”

In other words, what is happening — or, what has been happening — to America is nothing new in the annuls of great human civilizations. Nay, we are merely another link in the long chain of examples of nations refusing to learn the lesson from history — that man is an inherently corrupted being, with knowledge of right and wrong, but a perpetual inclination for wrong.

No matter what extreme you slide toward, man’s age-old dream of a perfect “Utopia” will never come true without a fundamental change in mankind itself. That change can only be wrought about by God Himself, through the power of the new covenant.

But since mankind doesn’t want to acknowledge God’s right to do that, he has chosen to ignore God, and seek answers in himself. Hence, the problem remains, and the terrible cycle is repeated once more. Thank God there is a day when all of that will come to an end. God will not put up with the iniquity of man forever; He will come and establish His own government to rule in justice.

Today I am thrilled to announce that we have a new participant in Founding Father’s Quote Friday. MikeB from Florida, author of two great history blogs (Great Lives in History and Citrus Country Social Studies) has written his first FFQF post. Go here to check it out!