Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “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 (1914-2006) American minister, author