Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.
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Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.
There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.
Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.
We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.
Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.
In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.
There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.
A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.
Democracy can only spring from practising it early, and democratic action was not to expected from young people brought up under a close authoritarian system.
Like children, adolescents need a framework. Otherwise they can't cope. When someone has unlimited freedom, it means there's nobody who cares what they're doing.
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