Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

July 3, 2009

During the American Revolution, British statesman Edmund Burke raised his voice in defense of the rights of the American colonists. Burke warned that the corruption and power-lust of the imperial British government were a threat to the rights not only of the colonists, but of British people everywhere.

Burke returned to that theme in a 1793 address:

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take one against our own. I must fairly say I dread our own power and our own ambition. I dread our being too much dreaded.... Sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

Burke, like Chesterton more than a century later, was a patriot who loved England not because it was the dominant global power, but because it was his home.

On this Independence Day, it?s worth asking ourselves if we love our country enough to protect it from the power of the government ruling it.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.