After watching the first debate of the presidential debate season, the following seems significant...as it spans both when it was written and our current context:
Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.
-- Thomas Jefferson
