Chapter
One






A Wind Is Coming!




God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can
the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only
firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are a
gift from God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I
tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, and that His justice
cannot sleep forever.




Thomas Jefferson,

“Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII,”
1781






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