Re: Somebody take a stand, PLEASE

Posted by ShepFL on August 19, 2004 at 21:40:51 from (155.14.26.40):

In Reply to: Somebody take a stand, PLEASE posted by TimFL on August 19, 2004 at 08:10:56:

My defining line is this Sirs -
There have existed, in every age and every country, two distinct orders of men -- the lovers of freedom and the devoted advocates of power. I am voting for freedom.

I think best said by E. Merril Root (1971).

Today too many of the shouters for freedom do not realize that any release from outer compulsion means a greater necessity for inner wisdom. Freedom is not a freedom from responsibility, but a responsibility for choice. Freedom depends upon reality, truth, inner wisdom; it is the choice of choices, the inner compulsion of truth, the soul's own rule of circumstance by introstance. It is not a whoopla carnival, but the great, lonely, and noble anguish of the hero of the mind.

Freedom does not mean the liberty to do anything or everything, but the liberty to have self-responsibility. Narrow is the way and strait is the gate, and few there be who find it. Freedom is not loose, easy, indiscriminate; it is a terrible and noble thing, to be won, through blood, sweat, and tears, by the athlete of the soul.

America's Steadfast Dream (1971)

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