America speaks constantly of freedom while becoming increasingly enslaved to appetite, anger, screens, consumption, and desire. Scripture and America's Founders understood something we are in danger of forgetting: liberty cannot survive without self-government. Chapter 28 of The Founders’ Quill asks a deeply personal question—what has mastered us? The recovery of ordered liberty may begin much closer to home than Washington.

A republic is not kept first in the halls of Congress. It is kept at the dinner table, beside the child’s bed, in the church pew, in the classroom, and around the family Bible. Chapter 22 of The Founders’ Quill reminds us that liberty cannot survive on information alone. The next generation must be formed in truth, virtue, faith, memory, and responsibility if America is to keep the freedom it has inherited.