Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-2] of 2 Rev. Edmund A. Opitz quotesRev. Edmund A. Opitz QuotesRev. Edmund A. Opitz There is a place for government in the affairs of men, and our Declaration of Independence tells us precisely what that place is. The role of government is to protect individuals in their God-given individual rights. Freedom is the natural birthright of man, but all that government can do in behalf of freedom is to let the individual alone, and it should secure him in his rights by making others let him alone.~ Rev. Edmund A. Opitz No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words 'no' and 'not' employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.~ Rev. Edmund A. Opitz Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print