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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.

We live in an unsafe world.

I've come to realize that protecting freedom of choice in our everyday lives is essential to maintaining a healthy civil society.

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way.

The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.

We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.