To go with Ether 8: 22-23 Theodore Roosevelt said, "Freedom is a gift that cannot be enjoyed save by those who show themselves worthy of it."

"Showing ourselves 'worthy of' freedom was the essence of the prophetic warning that came to us from Moroni, as quoted above. The rationale of our founding fathers, and many subsequent leaders such as Theodore Roosevelt, is very clear and concise. To be free of tyrannical government a people must be willing to be governed by the supremacy of law. The greater the commitment to the supremacy of law, the greater their ability to be self-governing under law." John L. Harmer - Pornography and the Loss of Liberty.