Do the Right Thing - Mike Huckabee

Posted on February 14th, 2009 by Brian Sparks.
Categories: Book Notes, Christian Living, Do the Right Thing.

“Freedom can’t exist in a moral vacuum. It mighyt make some on the left uncomforable to admin it, but without clear boundaries of right and wrong, the very concept of liberty breaks down” (page 30).

“Character has been defined as ‘what we are when no one but God is watching.’ Character is believing that even if I don’t ‘get caught,’ the rightness or wrongness of an action is more about the action itself and not just the discovery of it by others.
“As I govern myself and restrain from behavior that hurts others, whether the hurt is physical, emotional, or financial, it will be unnecessary to have outside forms of government monitoring, judging, and, if necessary, correcting my behavior. Without my own conscience-driven ‘internal government’ forming my adherence to a principled and precise moral code, an external government will be required to not only create those definitions of what is right and wrong (legistlative), but to enforce them upon me (executive) and to make sure that those who do the governing are doing so according to rigid principles itself (judicial)” (page 30-31).

“Washington and the Founders believed that America should have, as Thomas Jefferson said in his first inaugural address, ‘a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
“That is, a government that is lean but not mean. In the Founders’ view, public servants would not get paid much and would not stay long. They would have to go home, to live under the taxes and rules that they created while in Washington. Now, that was a check and balance!” (page 64).

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