Along with liberty comes the responsibility of defending it. Patrick Henry said "Give me liberty or give me death." How many people today are willing to stand behind words like those? True liberty also presumes that you will take responsibility for your own actions and not rely upon government to assist you in any way. Charity is great, but government mandated charity is oppression, and that is what we have today. Not only have we lost our self reliance, we have lost our firm conviction that our liberties come from God and that if we are unwilling to stand firm and live according to His teachings, we will suffer the consequence of losing those liberties to any who would infringe upon them.