"The prerogative of princes may easily and daily grow, while the privileges of the subject are for the most part at an everlasting stand."
--from The New World by Winston Churchill (He excerpted it from an Apology the House of Commons drew up to remind their new king, James I, that they were a free people and that the Divine Right of Kings was less a given in England than he had reckoned on.)
We mustn't forget that the privileges of the subject, or the citizen, are at an everlasting stand-- we must consistently stand for liberty, as it is something that gets eaten away if we take it for granted.
Are you standing?
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