Justice Louis Brandeis said, “Those who won our independence
valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the
secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. They recognized
the risks to which all human institutions are subject. They knew that fear
breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; and that hate menaces stable
government. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.” I’ve never visited
Venezuela or the Ukraine. But several of my friends have. And I have many
friends with loved ones who call one of these places home. For them, when I
read the news coming from these places, my heart aches. Joseph de Maistre is
credited with having said, “Every nation gets the government it deserves.”
Whether he really said it or not, he has a point. But I can’t help feeling when
freedom is denied anywhere in the world, the whole world suffers.
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