When we through our educational culture through the media through the entertainment culture give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions we are telling them in effect that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
All my life Americans have been accustomed to thinking of theirs as 'the richest freest' country in the world. By most measurements it was long a contender for that honor and – among the larger countries if equal weight were given to wealth and indices of freedom – probably did deserve to be so described.
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They were singing in French but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.