Russia has invaded Ukraine...and yesterday was the 68th anniversary of Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri. About tyranny:
"The power of the State is exercised without restraint, either by dictators or by compact oligarchies operating through a privileged party and a political police. ...We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.
"All this means that the people of any country have the right, and should have the power by constitutional action, by free unfettered elections, with secret ballot, to choose or change the character or form of government under which they dwell; that freedom of speech and thought should reign; that courts of justice, independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom. Here are the title deeds of freedom which should lie in every cottage home."
Christians, pray! (1Timothy 2:1-4)
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