Our freedom is in jeopardy

I was impressed with the reading this week and copied some quotes from Ron Paul's farewell address. So anything i quotation marks are from his farewell speech unless it says otherwise. It is strange how many liberties we've lost and don't even notice. A few he points out in his own words are: "Citizens are guilty until proven innocent in the unconstitutional administrative courts," "Why do so many in the government and the federal officials believe that creating money out of thin air creates wealth," "and Why do so many accept the deeply flawed principle that government bureaucrats and politicians can protect us from ourselves without totally destroying the principle of liberty?" It's amazing whats going on a few interesting and true quotes he had are:
"If the people are unhappy with the government performance it must be recognized that government is merely a reflection of an immoral society that rejected a moral government of constitutional limitations of power and love of freedom."
along with that he said "Benjamin Franklin claimed “only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.”  John Adams concurred:  “Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
"Sadly, we have become accustomed to living with the illegitimate use of force by government.  It is the tool for telling the people how to live, what to eat and drink, what to read and how to spend their money."
"The federal register is now 75,000 pages long and the tax code has 72,000 pages, and expands every year.  When will the people start shouting, “enough is enough,” and demand Congress cease and desist."
"Too many people have for too long placed too much confidence and trust in government and not enough in themselves."
"The Constitution established four federal crimes.  Today the experts can’t even agree on how many federal crimes are now on the books—they number into the thousands…. I don’t understand the complacency of the Congress and the willingness to continue their obsession with passing more Federal laws."

But he says there is hope. we can change this but the government can't do anything, like he said "government is merely a reflection of an immoral society that rejected a moral government of constitutional limitations of power and love of freedom." we need to change but our freedoms can be recovered. some things he said about recovering it are:
"The #1 responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow."
"The Constitution or more laws per se, have no value if the people’s attitudes aren’t changed."
"The same moral standards that individuals are required to follow should apply to all government officials.  They cannot be exempt."
with that again "government is merely a reflection of an immoral society that rejected a moral government of constitutional limitations of power and love of freedom."
"Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections. We cannot expect a Federal government controlled school system to provide the intellectual ammunition to combat the dangerous growth of government that threatens our liberties."
"To achieve liberty and peace, two powerful human emotions have to be overcome.  Number one is “envy” which leads to hate and class warfare.  Number two is “intolerance” which leads to bigoted and judgmental policies.  These emotions must be replaced with a much better understanding of love, compassion, tolerance and free market economics. Freedom, when understood, brings people together. When tried, freedom is popular."

We need to change how we as a country think and act to be more moral and responsible. If we so our country a has hope and can survive. We can't change others in the country but what we can is change ourselves, as Ron Paul said. "The #1 responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow." This should be our number one goal and hopefully it will work, because it is our only chance.