The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.
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In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.
As I understand the American Founders, the most brilliant and daring idea they had was that it's possible to create a free society that could stay free forever.
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.
The world today is anything but trouble-free.
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