Freedom

 

"This freedom is not a celestial condition, received once and for all, and to be simply enjoyed........

It is perpetually threatened by new obstacles and perils arising from new obstacles.......it must be

perpetually defended and improved.....It must be a new conquest and creation for each generation....

there can be no inertia, no passivity, no rest. It must be unceasingly regenerated by the very life-

breath of a free people.......that's what keeps us free....."

~ Jacques Maritain, in his 1956 "Reflections On America"