I'm not sure you could have liberty without justice, and I don't think you could have justice without liberty. But if you put them together, you have the special condition of the community we know to be the United States of America. That's a tremendous goal for us. And I hope that, whatever our tenure of service is, that we can say that freedom will have flourished in that time. Our culture is a culture that is the envy of the world, but some from time to time raise concerns, and all of us need to be ever vigilant.
Eternal vigilance is the price to be paid for liberty and freedom.
But freedom can't be guaranteed by governments alone. You see, what happens in America is just as much determined what happens in our culture as it is what happens in our government. Some people have said that Main Street is more important than Wall Street. I happen to believe that's true - what happens in our homes, what happens in our lives, in our families and in our communities. And if we want to be a nation where individuals reach the capacity that God has placed within them, if we want to be a nation where every person has the opportunity to max it out, I think we have to be more than individuals that expect for freedom to be guarded by government.