When you say, "No" to a face mask, it is so much more.
When you say, "No" to the death jab, it is so much more.
When you say, "No" to your child for wanting something bad for him, it is so much more.
When you say, "No" to your neighbor when he starts talking about things that you do not want to be a part of, it is so much more.
When you say, "No" to a stranger misbehaving in public, it is so much more.

You are an adult.
You live in a free place.
Freedom is not free.
It costs.
Every society needs order.
Every society will have order.

It will have order through the civil ways that society can do that, or it will have order through the point of a gun. Those are our choices.

America has numerous founding documents, the most fundamental of those is the Bible. Appropriately, America's second president, John Adams, wrote in 1798 in a letter to the Massachusetts Militia, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." Freedom and morality are partners, freedom cannot exist absent morality.

When you say, "Yes" to a child who needs to be told no, it is so much more.

When you say, "Yes" to a stranger misbehaving, it is so much more.

Your bold presence and your calm authority is needed everywhere you go.

There may be penalties for that. In fact, that is what most people say to me when I say that. They bring up the penalties that come with upright behavior.

Well, the fact that you bring up penalties in response to my insistence that you do the right thing, is simply proof that you are among the problem. You are among the fearful Americans — those who live in what is arguably the most free culture that has ever existed, arguably the most well-developed civilization on the planet, and you do not promote that, but you cower in fear. You fear what someone will say to you. You fear what someone will do to you. You shirk from responsibility, "so you can live to fight another day." You shirk from responsibility so there "can be peace in my day."

The coward is a moral cheapskate. He is unwilling to spend the capital. He is unwilling to spend the capital that it takes to build an upright society. He is very much willing to live in one, but when he is called on to build that society, he all of a sudden has nothing to offer.