History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution. – Gary Ross
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour. – Wendell Willkie
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. – Samuel Johnson (Thanks, Frank Lynch)
