When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. We didnt pass it to our children in the bloodstream. The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. Everything is an appreciation, even an insult provided you look at it with that angle. Free enterprise, in other words, has been an unmixed blessing only in America, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions. Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of "happiness" was the blessing of America prior to the Revolution, and that its cause was natural abundance under "mild government," and neither political freedom nor the unchained, unbridled "private initiative" of capitalism, which in the absence of natural wealth has led everywhere to unhappiness and mass poverty.
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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood, and all too often we have acted as though we too believed that it was wealth and abundance which were at stake in the postwar conflict between the "revolutionary" countries in the East and the West.
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